Iain Cameron's Diary
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2005-03-15 - 5:55 a.m. Listened to a Jansch compilation � thinking how magnificent It Don�t Bother Me is � title track of the 2nd LP. This is the one before Jack Orion which is considered �enormously influential�. Another way of looking at JO is an enormous dead end. If you think that JCF was the spark then the first two albums are where the spark catches. It Don�t Bother Me is a great blend of vocal tone and lyric sentiment. I realized something extraordinary about 3 Hours today. As regards the next two 5LL tracks, yesterday I spotted the following by John Ashberry � this is the last stanza of �A Definition of Blue� �And yet it results in a downward motion, or rather a floating one. So the value of the everyday�s results is always blue? (Down is the most intense dimension according to DL) I am moving my office back to the first floor � more humping boxes, files and books. The server is going to be down all day � which is getting to be very frustrating � ofcourse there probably aren�t a zillion e-ms for me waiting to be read � but you never know. On the train back to Leamington I read through a little book called �Theories of Existence� by Sprigge which has an interesting discussion of sex and Sartre in the Existentialist chapter. It takes as its starting point the Master and Slave Dialectic as described here (not by Sprigge)
Hegel achieves the relativisation of the Self-Other opposition by making both into expressions of the development of the Idea, or Spirit. In other words the different social positions that people occupy are not intrinsic to them. They are just vessels for the underlying spiritual development. By manifesting itself in these successive shapes - Master, Slave, mutually recognising selves - the Spirit develops and comes into consciousness of itself.� This appears to be the domination of the master as the active partner � but the Hegelian twist is that in dialectical terms the slave�s self awareness potentially has the advantage. The simplest example would be faking orgasm - it don't bother me what you do?
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