Episode 115: Transience & Immersion: On Brian Eno's 'Music for Airports'
Weird Studies
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The Importance of Affect Over Concept
i'm increasingly wary or disturbed by our celebration of subjective obliteration, our enthusiasm about networks and risomes. We are very willing and we seek out experiences where our subjectivity can be compromised. But at the same time, i think we need to be very careful before we frame subjectivity as a purely artificial, bourgeois concept. What is fragile and needs to be consciously preserved is the other column, the conceptual. You can live in a kind of a purely embodied somatic sense, but what you risk losing is the attentive, egoic, centred, rational partus. So they're not symmetrical. One is the world as it always is beneath the surface,. The other one is
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