tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31783628.post115679227874524395..comments2024-02-21T06:57:22.256-05:00Comments on Unemployed Negativity: Dialectics (part one) and Cover Bandsunemployed negativityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01251742512967070290noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31783628.post-1157679575857349612006-09-07T21:39:00.000-04:002006-09-07T21:39:00.000-04:00This post is great, and the parallel between conti...This post is great, and the parallel between continental philosophy and bar cover bands is incredible. I wonder if one can extend the picture a bit. A friend of mine used to play in a ... a funk-ska band in Chicago in the late 90s. My friend was a punk rocker and ska kid and always tried to get the band to play all ages shows and to write different sorts of songs. Much of the band really liked to play those shows, for the energy, but the decision makers in the band tended to push for playing in bars to less enthusiastic audiences and writing music more for the latter audeience. The money was better, by a whole lot. I wonder then if the problem is not continental philosophy but professional continental philosophy, just as the problem with the bar band is not bands or rock bands but bar bands. As in, the better works will emerge elsewhere? Or not. <BR/>cheers,<BR/>NateNatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08918436253681803057noreply@blogger.com