Various Production’s remix of Adele’s “Chasing Pavements” and working class entertainment: aestheticizing the struggle?

An early contender for song of the year. Words after the break, but first the mp3s.

 

Adele-Chasing Pavements (Various Remix)

Roll Deep-Flying Away (Ft. Alex Mills)

Justifications, Idealisms

The great barrier of entry to blogging, the enormous threshold of narcissism that seems shameful to overcome, makes the practice seem impossible.

 

But I think that people don’t blog enough. Blogging forces you to collect your thoughts and, in some way, publish them, even if they are in the most unorganized way possible. Generally, though, the more organization the better, because, even apart from this writing’s utility for others, this magnifies the greatest utility, which is for the writer. When writing, as when reading, we tend to construct logic (this is why poetry and art can be so difficult to create), and blogging forces a commitment to ideas. Without this forced commitment, the worst kind of logical inconsistencies and prevarications can persist. A prime example is the structure of disavowal, which is also the structure of irony, which is also the structure of racism and sexism and most of the popular oppressive isms in our postmodern epoch. In disavowal (the foundational case being the discovery and then denial of the lack of the female phallus in Freud) we split, we persist in believing one thing even when presented with evidence to the contrary. Zizek explains this as “I know my mother doesn’t have a penis, but…” and “I know Jews are just like us, but…” When commitment is made, when these contradictions are forced to cohabitate in the same time and place, a collision is forced. Most often, of course, the disavowal survives, but the only way that it can be killed is through the forced juxtaposition of self-constructed thought.