Noam Chomsky
posted by murmurists at 12:39 pm
Thursday, June 15, 2006
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Anthony Donovan is an artist, musician, composer, improviser and writer based in England. He works solo, either as Murmurists or under his own name, and is associated with projects such as Destroyevsky, Ou_pi Golgotha.undead, Spidey Agutter and the.clinamen. An ardent collaborator, he has worked with the likes of John Zorn, Jochen Arbeit, Geoff Leigh, PAS, Steve Beresford and Damo Suzuki. Donovan co-curates the respected labels Classwar Karaoke and suRRism-Phonoethics with Jaan Patterson. His interests are all either obscure or opaque, but morally authentic.
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2 Comments:
Lovely! But who would be more nonplussed, Chomsky or Clarkson?
...good question. Clarkson is a strange anti-hero to me; one is on safer ground liking Chomsky, at least in the leftist circles I tend to inhabit. This is acurious reversal of the mainstream/ alternative axis: Clarkson looks more alternative, whereas Chomsky appears more mainstream - if you see what I mean...! The history behind this one-line-joke of mine - conflating Clarkson with Chomsky - is as follows: A friend of mine, my oldest friend, known each other since we were 13, so almost 30 years... Well there's a Likely Lads element here: insofar as he got married, had kids, got a job at Pilkington's Glass, worked his way up. I, meanwhile, pissed about in bands, then art college, and only pretty recently 'settled down'. That backdrop provides a tension. So, in short, I was all Chomsky-leftist-arty etc.; he was supposedly more mainstream in his habits. So, one night I am around his house, and he says 'Let's watch 'Clarkson'' - the man's erstwhile chat show. My blood ran cold! What, that t**t? No thanks! But we did watch it; and it was really funny. More than that, though, Clarkson knows who he is and accounts for a certain kind of attitude that has been more of less removed from the mainstream. He's not - yuk phrase, I know - politically-correct. That's obvious. But his appeal, for me, is more nuanced than that. Annie - my wife - and I love the innocent laddish crappness of Top Gear. It's such a cultural enclave; a bit of fun. He's designedly unashamed of his child-like awe, and that is valuable, I believe. It's also pretty radical in our current climate. Hats off to the curmudgeon machine-nerd!
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