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Thursday, July 18, 2013
Against Health and Efficiency Monitor, issue 5, January 1986 by Simon Reynolds
I'm sorry to say that's legible only with an avoidable amount of effort. Any chance of your transcribing it, as you did with the other Monitor post? I presume it's the first of a chain of articles, followed by (a) Melody Maker piece(s), and the Zoot Suit and Secondhand Dresses chapter?
if you click on the image it is legible (at least on a computer screen, as opposed to phone)
I don't have time to transcribe it I'm afraid at the moment
there is a possibility however that a collection of pieces from Monitor is going to come out, but the conversation about that is in its early days
yes it's a sort of unintended prequel, or source, for both the Younger Than Yesterday piece and the Zoot Suit chapter, although the musical reference points have shifted a bit, or narrowed, into that whole C86 / indie innocence zone, which didn't quite exist yet when I wrote Against Health and Efficiency. Well, it was beginning to take shape...
... Very belatedly returning to comment here.. I'm not sure I recall what was the problem back then, as I'm on the same 10" tablet, having upgraded from a 7" couple years before, which was too small in many instances, hence, it might not be surprising that I've avoided 'smart'-phones, in the barely over twenty years that I've used a mobile. As I've readily done in numerous other instances, it's just a matter of opening the image in another tab.
I came across this rather vacuous academic review of Blissed Out, alongside Steve Redhead's The End of the Century Party: https://annas-archive.org/search?index=journals&page=1&q=simon+reynolds+blissed&sort= Having first read both books long enough ago, the former much nearer its publication year, it reminds me of how the dim view I had of much if not most academia back then, only became more so thereafter.
Although academic insularity was often rivalled by some overlapping or adjacent left-political environments, with which I had more direct contact. However, reading Ben Watson was one of relatively few prompts that made me think that there were possibilities for addressing 'popular' music and culture 'politically', without being politically reductive, whether in the not dissimilar ways of Stalinist realism, or high-culture (philosophical) idealism, or the Cultural Studies path of chasing the market for pockets of 'resistance', which is also within the trajectory of Stalinism. Notwithstanding Watson having been with a very different political group from the one I'd been around.
I'm working on writing pertinent to this post, and it will be accessible via here: https://independent.academia.edu/PieroKahani Although I've not been doing much there for several months, not even keeping up with my notifications, but I will be more active.
I'm sorry to say that's legible only with an avoidable amount of effort. Any chance of your transcribing it, as you did with the other Monitor post?
ReplyDeleteI presume it's the first of a chain of articles, followed by (a) Melody Maker piece(s), and the Zoot Suit and Secondhand Dresses chapter?
All the best.
if you click on the image it is legible (at least on a computer screen, as opposed to phone)
ReplyDeleteI don't have time to transcribe it I'm afraid at the moment
there is a possibility however that a collection of pieces from Monitor is going to come out, but the conversation about that is in its early days
yes it's a sort of unintended prequel, or source, for both the Younger Than Yesterday piece and the Zoot Suit chapter, although the musical reference points have shifted a bit, or narrowed, into that whole C86 / indie innocence zone, which didn't quite exist yet when I wrote Against Health and Efficiency. Well, it was beginning to take shape...
... Very belatedly returning to comment here.. I'm not sure I recall what was the problem back then, as I'm on the same 10" tablet, having upgraded from a 7" couple years before, which was too small in many instances, hence, it might not be surprising that I've avoided 'smart'-phones, in the barely over twenty years that I've used a mobile.
ReplyDeleteAs I've readily done in numerous other instances, it's just a matter of opening the image in another tab.
I came across this rather vacuous academic review of Blissed Out, alongside Steve Redhead's The End of the Century Party: https://annas-archive.org/search?index=journals&page=1&q=simon+reynolds+blissed&sort=
Having first read both books long enough ago, the former much nearer its publication year, it reminds me of how the dim view I had of much if not most academia back then, only became more so thereafter.
Although academic insularity was often rivalled by some overlapping or adjacent left-political environments, with which I had more direct contact.
However, reading Ben Watson was one of relatively few prompts that made me think that there were possibilities for addressing 'popular' music and culture 'politically', without being politically reductive, whether in the not dissimilar ways of Stalinist realism, or high-culture (philosophical) idealism, or the Cultural Studies path of chasing the market for pockets of 'resistance', which is also within the trajectory of Stalinism.
Notwithstanding Watson having been with a very different political group from the one I'd been around.
I'm working on writing pertinent to this post, and it will be accessible via here: https://independent.academia.edu/PieroKahani
Although I've not been doing much there for several months, not even keeping up with my notifications, but I will be more active.