Techno-Prosthetic Romantic Futurism

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"Y'all scholars think you know. You think you got it all figured out. Like just cuz you got a job in some cushy institution you can tell people what to think and feel. What's real. Well, maybe you forgot what it's like not to have a job. Or not to have an institution back up what you say. Cuz really, who gives a shit? I mean besides you. IS ANYBODY LISTENING? You act like the world cares. Only folks who care is W. W. Norton and Cambridge University Press, maybe Routledge too. [1]   Wonchu be where you're at? [2]   Wonchu wake up?"


Notes

1. Scholars like to write as if they were exempt from commodity culture. What a sweet delusion! As university presses fess up to the imperatives of the ledger, scholarship will concede its complicity in commodity culture. Then and only then will we get somewhere.

2. See Patrick Neate, Where You're At: Notes from the Front Line of a Hip Hop Plantet (London: Riverhead, 2003).


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