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-- single sheet fanzine, February 1979
Words: Ian Penman.
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(Initial hypothesis) The first risk of organized industry of late it is widely not too hot, discursively speaking, no prospects, of interest internment unrest, will be whiling away a whole already unable capital... The impress -quarter -grid of this forced-hearing central pop u lation is where beat in the administration ousts the packaged Riff. That the intent has to amend law and a garrulous chit-chat yik-yak situation, precarious, the focal element. According to young analysts who seek this-year prospects of political or things beat for education, annihilation, resistance... On the border, their brink, our use of concepts of discontinuity, rupture, threshold, limit, series, and transformation. Questions of procedure. Unities of organized discourse of late ... Scritti Politti pull and push beat politik onomatopoeiac...formation of words by imitation of sounds associated with the act or object to be denoted...sections seen emerging from a mess! relentless rockers... in the discursive validation of claims to validity, and the discursive dissolution of opinions and norms the validity of which is based on unjustified claims, no matter to what extent it is actually accepted... "some kind of piecemeal engineering or dismantling of problems as wee come to them, with new sets of tools that aren't really derived formally from the history of rock n roll..." Scritti Politti: between function and heart, past and potential, 'politics' and 'aesthetics', communication and control, knowledge and interest. The problems and positions of useful action with and in rock music demand rigour: doubt beat! provisional fever... "If people wanted to know what we were about, instead of going into a tedious attempt at grand plans and grand strategies which we don't really have...It's very much a bit by bit sorting of things, using new ways of talking about it..." You search long modern England fast and the song has four short choruses to stagger through, artificially autobiographical in this age and date, a vein like this. In the upper discourse, time and trial, all the usual defence and systems of regularities, auto-changes knowledge regularly, must dash. Intro the processes of what some would like to constitute real belief, sound un- tampered it's four o clock never mind that old slack magic looking into hermeneutical heirlooms, to the time, not signs of historical contempt, lock into the ballrooms there's a battle! all the spaces a set affords... the sense of practical change of established conditions, and the realisation of goals which demand the risk of taking sides, and, thus, precisely the relinquishment of the neutral role of a participant in discourse: all because I ask the question... (I) try to explore the discourse not from the point of view of the individuals who are speaking/playing, nor from the point of view of the formal structures of what they are saying/playing, but from the point of view of the rules that come into play in the very existence of such discourse: what conditions have to be fulfilled, not to make the discourse coherent and true in general but to give it, at the time when it was produced and accepted, value and practical application ...presented with a threat.
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