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Posted by Chris on November 13, 2009 at 1:23 pm
“We suggest the term ‘civil war’ as conflicts within cognitive capitalism that have no clear class composition and share the same media space… immaterial civil war is also the usual conflicts between brain workers despite all the rhetoric of knowledge sharing and digital commons.” from Matteo Pasquinelli ‘Immaterial Civil War‘.
…which is really my long-winded way of saying that hating on UK hiphop achieves nothing. Pasquinelli’s essay is also good for a David-Harvey-quoting section on symbolic capital feedback loops and extracting rent-as-surplus-value in Barcelona.
meanwhile here’s track from Juice Aleem’s fine new record on Big Dada…
Juice Aleem – The Fallen (Gen. 15.13)
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Thanks Chris,
Love your blog. Have been reading and listening for about three years (at least). You say things succinctly without the tendency to overstate and get longwinded like so many bloggers covering similar musico-theoretical terrain. Cheers.