Thursday, September 25, 2025

 One thought for you - what values does the deconstruction of a dance music form add to it? The original deconstruction (ie Derrida, et al) was critical  - it involved very close work on philosophical texts, intended to unsettle and undermine its precepts, expose the hidden assumptions, the cognitive blindspots - showing how, for instance, one term in a binary was in complicity with the other term and dependent on it. Essentially the goal was to reveal the shaky foundations on which a philosophical or ethical or political argument was made. How does that transpose to the practice of making a "sort of" house track or a not fully functional jungle tune? Wouldn't it be more valuable - literally more constructive - to actually build a new form of dance music, rather than create this off-kilter, defective version of an existing dance form, which if nothing else does the job it was designed for? 

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