Re: Ernst Bloch on Jazz, Kitsch and Colportage

[Jamie Owen Daniel <jdaniel@xxxxxxx>]

dear simon,

you can perhaps take some comfort in knowing that there are a great many
of us on the list who delete dumain's posts unread....

jamie

On Sat, 15 May 1999, simon smith wrote:

> In article <3.0.3.32.19990514130109.0069df6c@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ralph Dumain
> <rdumain@xxxxxxx> writes
> >>The critique of Jazz, the jitterbug, is just that it facilitates >the
> >reduction of body to a machine, just as it simulates its >liberation.  This
> >is jazz as I have heard it.
> >
> >This is to prove only what a pathetic, vapid shit you are.  There is, of
> >course, no content whatever in this utterance; just a quotation of
> >authority.  Yet what is at issue here is who has authority in these matters
> >and on what basis.
>
> (other abuse snipped)
>
> I have not personally insulted you once. Academic discussion as personal
> aggression, the use of language as a weapon, is as far as I can imagine
> from the spirit of the Frankfurt School, and its refusal is integral to
> the work of both Adorno and Benjamin. I felt strongly against jazz well
> before I read Adorno and went into a critique of his ideas. I really
> don't see what place pugilism has on this list. It was one of the things
> I hoped to escape from when I subscribed. I have got myself embroiled in
> internet 'flame wars' before and have resolved 'never again!'. Ego self-
> preservation and the rage of self against other always takes over.
>
> La de da. You will be pleased or not to know that I will be deleting
> your obnoxious posts from now on.
> --
> simon
>