July 02, 2004
Critical Beatdown.
A Post-Theoretical Mixtape by Steven Shaviro.
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I feel like I'm missing something.
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yah me too
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Johansen empties out Jagger's double consciousness, by explicitly presenting it as nothing more than a theatrical shtick. He thereby discredits the very idea of musical authenticity, upon which Jagger ironically depends. Johansen's meta-irony rectifies Jagger's irony: not by restoring it to its "proper" context, of course, but by placing it within an infinite series of thefts and displacements. Just awful, really.
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Just awful, really. Yeah, sorry, that was my reason for posting it. It's just the most over the top bollocks I had ever read. I thought it was good for a laugh.