After the politics and the snow, here's a few tunes. Once again, they include Philip Glass from his Solo Piano and Godspeed You! Black Emporer, this time from the live from their John Peel Session. Concluding the music is another post-rock song from Explosions In The Sky's The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place. "Obsolescence is the leading product of our national infatuation with technology, and I now believe that obsolescence is not a darkness but a beauty: not perdition but salvation. The more headlong the progress of technological development, the greater the volume of obsolete detritus. And the detritus isn't simply material. It's angry religion, resurgent countercultural ideologies, the newly unemployed, the eternally unemployable. These are the fiction writer's gurantee that he or she will never be alone. Obsolescence is our legacy."
-- Jonathan Franzen from the essay "Scavenging" (which can be found in How To Be Alone)
0 comments:
Post a Comment