...noise annoys...

Simon Reynolds

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Forget subversion. The point is self-subversion, overthrowing the power structure in your own head. The enemy is the mind's tendency to systematize, sew up experience, place a distance between itself and immediacy.

Simon Reynolds

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The avant-garde is now an arrière-garde.

Simon Reynolds

Tags: music

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Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to suffer through an endless exile, a successive severing from those precious few moments of feeling at home in the world.

Simon Reynolds

Tags: nostalgia transience

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The danger of restorative nostalgia lies in its belief that the mutilated 'wholeness' of the body politic can be repaired. But the reflective nostalgic understands deep down that loss is irrecoverable: Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to suffer through an endless exile, a successive severing from those precious few moments of feeling at home in the world. In pop terms, Morrissey is the supreme poet of reflective nostalgia.

Simon Reynolds

Tags: life past present music time nostalgia pop-culture smiths pop retro morrissey

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