As long as individuals are compelled to rent themselves on the market to those who are willing to hire them, as long as their role in production is simply that of ancillary tools, then there are striking elements of coercion and oppression that make talk of democracy very limited, if even meaningful.   Noam Chomsky

Monday, January 31, 2005

Krafty kut

Love me, love New Order. That's the long and short of it. They've seen me through thick and thin and I owe them.

It seems almost adolescent to have a "favourite band" but I do. They are almost the only band who I get excited about, certainly the only ones who I feel compelled to dl an MP3 (or an ASX) of their new single. Anyone else I can wait.

But New Order are different. I couldn't say why. Yes, they are more inventive than most. Yes, they write stretches of music that touch the sublime. But so do a lot of bands.

Here is the point where theories of aesthetics fall down. How do we explain what touches us when we are without criteria? I can recognise the qualities of New Order and compare them objectively with other sources of art but how can I know what it is that makes them what they are?

posted by Dr Zen @ 9:38 am

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