Pros:
1. Award-winning sound engine and interface designed by embedded systems and human interface researcher and all-around cool dude Bret Victor
2. Fully modular virtual analog synthesizer behind a surprisingly bare interface, patches editable on PC
3. Comes with gig bag
Cons:
1. Powerful incense odor from gig bag has begun to permeate the synth itself
2. Gig bag is covered in cat hair and awful dragon motifs
It begins
Given the brouhaha over the apparent unconstitutionality of waiting 11 months to appoint a Supreme Court justice in an election year, I wonder what it will actually take to convince liberals that the GOP doesn’t care in the slightest about either:
1. The constitution
2. Looking like hypocrites
With the implementation of the ‘interested in’ feature for facebook events, the social signaling function of facebook event attendance is skyrocketing
maybe… mass market entertainment with slight aesthetic variations isn’t revolutionary praxis?
Idk how you can call like 40 backup dancers dressed like Black Panthers for a viewership of over 100 million a slight aesthetic variation but ok. Idk how you can call the lyrics “I like my Negro nose with Jackson 5 nostrils,” a love song to and from Black women, a slight aesthetic variation but ok!!!
Adorno over here’s just holding pop culture up to standards that make no contextual sense. As if anyone ever claimed a cool music video and halftime show were “revolutionary praxis” rather than just an exciting statement to see in such a mainstream cultural venue. Credit where it’s due, and for heaven’s sake let people take pleasure where they can find it.
Yes thank you!! that’s what I meant to say :)
I’m expressing somewhat hyperbolic skepticism towards this article’s take, not spewing derision on people who enjoy pop culture (I, after all, did watch and enjoy the game).
Ok but what qualifies as a “political act” then? Does a thing have to achieve the status of revolutionary praxis to qualify as politically salient? The song and it’s presentation in both the video and the halftime show were explicitly political. Having only the title of the article to go on here it seems like an unnecessarily cranky comment. And the bit about “slight aesthetic variation” was excessively dismissive of the symbolic significance of the Black Panther costumes and everything else going on in the video.
1. the aesthetic choices of the halftime show are not nearly as up-front as the choices in the music video (no trashed cop cars on display during the former), so they should be evaluated separately
2. I’m not obligated to be cheerful towards articles that I think aren’t serious
3. Like I said, hyperbole
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