In his controversial essay on white jazz musician Burton Greene, Amiri Baraka asserted that jazz was exclusively an African American art form and e...
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Dec 05, 2011
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Since the death of Jacques Derrida in 2004, there has been a subtle but unmistakable shift away from the project of deconstruction in the more radical quarters of the humanities. The rise of Badiou and the titan of Ljubljana have pushed the problems of writing and differance further from current debates. The decades-long argument between Badiou and Derrida -- both heirs to the earlier generation of structuralists, specifically, Lacan and Althusser -- seems a thing of the past as English-translat
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Sep 15, 2008
Yejin
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This was the hardest, most satisfying, most enlightening/ensounding text I've ever encountered. The beautiful yet purely improvisational nature of the text really illuminated the importance of the sonic in afro-modern culture, and comfortably alluded to the most uncomfortable shrieks of history. Moten's grasp of the woman's core involvement in the complicated formation of the modern (by engaging with Hortense Spillers) is highly courageous and productive. He reconfigures what you think you kn
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Dec 07, 2007
I started this book in grad. school and abruptly stopped. This is extra dense and extra convoluted but apparently could offer me some insights if I would plod through it. I'm all about accessibility though, so I might not return to this book on principle.
Mar 15, 2008
Karli
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A very difficult read, which makes it rather frustrating. Although it toes the line of theoretical scholarly pretension, there are some genuinely insightful points to uncover.
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