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Nuisance - Writings on identity jamming & digital audio production
nuisance
1 : a thing, person or situation that is annoying, inconvenient, or causes trouble or problems;
2 : behavior which is harmful, offensive or annoying to the public or a member of it and that a court of law can order the person to stop.
This book compiles articles, essays, lecture transcripts, album annotations and other texts written by queer audio producer and writer Terre Thaemlitz between 1996 and 2015.
The overall theme uniting the texts is a defense of pessimism and a critical rejection of the incessant optimism lurking at the core of virtually all media – even in the “critical fields” themselves, where it reflects our conformity to those First World humanist and capitalist practices we wish to critique.
Additional new commentary notes by Terre Thaemlitz explain why the texts sometimes still fraudulently use positive terminology, and break up the linearity of the reading process – thus incorporating the theme of “nuisance” throughout the book.
1 : a thing, person or situation that is annoying, inconvenient, or causes trouble or problems;
2 : behavior which is harmful, offensive or annoying to the public or a member of it and that a court of law can order the person to stop.
This book compiles articles, essays, lecture transcripts, album annotations and other texts written by queer audio producer and writer Terre Thaemlitz between 1996 and 2015.
The overall theme uniting the texts is a defense of pessimism and a critical rejection of the incessant optimism lurking at the core of virtually all media – even in the “critical fields” themselves, where it reflects our conformity to those First World humanist and capitalist practices we wish to critique.
Additional new commentary notes by Terre Thaemlitz explain why the texts sometimes still fraudulently use positive terminology, and break up the linearity of the reading process – thus incorporating the theme of “nuisance” throughout the book.
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Published January 1, 2016
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February 12, 2018
Terre Thaemlitz is the single most interesting thing about contemporary dance music and electronic music culture.
Saying that, music is not of interest to her, instead she is interested in the social processes that cultivate our relationships to media, the way in which dominant culture suppresses the politics that exist within marginalised spaces, and how the modern day narrative pushed by the Pride(TM) movement only perpetuates the issues queer culture has long been positioned against.
This book is a collection of Terre's works and as a result contains little new content within it apart from the introduction, which to me, is one of the best pieces of hers I have read to date.
If you love Terre and everything she does, you should buy a physical copy of this immediately from her directly at www.comatonse.com and place it alongside what I'm sure is a large collection of her fabulous discography. It contains much of Terre's self deprecating wit, her unchained fervour and of course her esoteric knowledge on McDonald's mascot history.
A must have for Terre fans.
Saying that, music is not of interest to her, instead she is interested in the social processes that cultivate our relationships to media, the way in which dominant culture suppresses the politics that exist within marginalised spaces, and how the modern day narrative pushed by the Pride(TM) movement only perpetuates the issues queer culture has long been positioned against.
This book is a collection of Terre's works and as a result contains little new content within it apart from the introduction, which to me, is one of the best pieces of hers I have read to date.
If you love Terre and everything she does, you should buy a physical copy of this immediately from her directly at www.comatonse.com and place it alongside what I'm sure is a large collection of her fabulous discography. It contains much of Terre's self deprecating wit, her unchained fervour and of course her esoteric knowledge on McDonald's mascot history.
A must have for Terre fans.
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