From: "Chris McMahon" <pharmakeus-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Music and revolution
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 01:44:21 +0000


Dear Bobo,

Okay, yes. Other free sites. But how much does your PC and your software and 
your Internet Provider and so on cost? For starters. And how is it you have 
the free time to exchange MP3s anyway?

The way this will probably go down is like AIDS. The affluent west will 
screw harder, ignore the famines, wage the wars to get the last of the gas 
out of the coal shale ...

But lests say for sake of argument that the immanence of money has to get 
replaced by another immanence. The utopian immanence is passion or affect, 
which could, I think so too, destroy money. But the credit crash, or energy 
crunch, or whatever would only turn dollars into joules. A rose by another 
name. "How many Energy Units have you used citizen?"

This is the point of art as expenditure and its revolutionary promise: the 
destruction of money via the recording of affects? So the question remains, 
is art (even if it is transgressive, expenditure) a parasite on 1) Money 
(cf. V. Woolf - a room of your own with a PC) 2) Some kind of Law (e.g. 
Oedipus). That's what's at stake in the departure I was talking about 
between B and D&G.

:) Chris



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