Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 23:41:56 -0500 From: nik <mabnb-AT-hunterlink.net.au> Subject: Re: A possible "sellout"? >>The seductive power of techno is caused by the total elimination of >>everything human. The accelerated pace eradicates the time span >>necessary to think, speak, decide, enjoy, hate, love, etc. And >>there is something very liberating in this. No need to stand in a >>crowded bar shouting stupid things in some girl's ear. No need to >>feel ridiculous on the dance floor. Techno abolishes all these human, >>oh so human inclinations. It moves you without mercy, and doesn't >>furnish you with an illusory sense of subjective control. I would have to disagree with this. Here it seems as though you are equating the self (and by this I mean the emergent social phenomena that functions on a symbolic level) with the biological category human. Techno does (sometimes) seem to function on a level other than the symbolic. And by this I mean that it seems to work/influence our biology, and not our social self. This is perhaps what you were getting at by saying that it abolishes all of those oh so human inclinations. I would suggest that because techno functions below(?) the level of the symbolic, it is, in a sense, far more human as it would seem to operate unmediated on us. And so it is liberating in that it functions free of symbolic constraints. This said, it is a rare moment (unenhance by drugs) that you find youself free of the social on the dance floor.
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