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The Lost World

Vallejo Nocturno 2006 - history buff

Security-Basic Principle of State Activity

From Giorgia Agamben, his thoughts on Security and Terror:

Security as leading principle of state politics dates back to the the birth of the modern state. Hobbes already mentions it as the opposite of fear, which compels human beings to come together within a society. But not until the 18th century does a thought of security come into its own. In a 1978 lecture at the Collége de France (which has yet to be published) Michel Foucault has shown how the political and economic practice of the Physiocrats opposes security to discipline and the law as instruments of governance.

Turgot and Quesnay as well as Physiocratic officials were not primarily concerned with the prevention of hunger or the regulation of production, but wanted to allow for their development to then regulate and "secure" their consequences. While disciplinary power isolates and closes off territories, measures of security lead to an opening and to globalization; while the law wants to prevent and regulate, security intervenes in ongoing processes to direct them.In short, discipline wants to produce order, security wants to regulate disorder. Since measures of security can only function within a context of freedom of traffic, trade, and individual initiative, Foucault can show that the development of security accompanies the ideas of liberalism.

Today we face extreme and most dangerous developments in the thought of security. In the course of a gradual neutralization of politics and the progressive surrender of traditional tasks of the state, security becomes the basic principle of state activity. What used to be one among several definitive measures of public administration until the first half of the twentieth century, now becomes the sole criterium of political legitimation. The thought of security bears within it an essential risk. A state which has security as its sole task and source of legitimacy is a fragile organism; it can always be provoked by terrorism to become itself terroristic.

Inward Turning

“Culture happen in secret, all art is secret. Ordinary people only see the ashes of art, or the failures, or frozen moments. Only rarely onstage do bands achieve reality; mostly it’s in rehearsals, in lost moments. Nobody ever sees that or knows anything about it.”

David Thomas of Pere Ubu. . .thanks to anecdotal evidence

Stranger than strange

Vallejo Nocturno 2006 - chicago underground

Sometimes it is better to play somewhere in the middle. Not too high, not too low. Spent sometime in Chicago on a business trip. Meeting colleagues from the past and present. Thinking too much about the past, too much about the future. Stability, something we crave, seems to be change. Sometimes it is important to recognize the moment.

At The Virgin Festival

Vallejo Nocturno 2006- Last act of the night,Flaming Lips

Vallejo Nocturno 2006- fun, fun, fun

The thing about the DJ tent is called time reduction. It is a new concept (bit an old concept, at heart) but if you watch television you  may understand. Enter a chamber for 4 hours and come out and you think maybe 10 minutes transpired. well, we danced, we listened, we experienced, we saw, and yes, we sweated about ten tons of body weight.  Hey, it was good, it was fun. And Carl Cox kept the music going in ways that were always surprising. A real talent. Could spend the res t of my life ina DJ tent as long as there was some food, water, and love and understanding.

Vallejo nocturno 2006- Clap your hands say yeah!

A real infective band with their end of song jams. Like Miles very little regard for the audience as a body to address but the are a fun and inventive group. Let's see their next move. let's hope they wont get derailed.

At The Virgin Festival

vallejo Nocturno 2006 - New Pornographers

Critics darling so I heard.But this was an inevtive combo especially with their voacls and choruses. never boring-always unpredicatble in a pop-like way. Very much fun. Defintely abuy from a old music listener.

At The Virgin Festival

Vallejo Nocturno 2006- Los Momentos Diferentes

The music was good and the alternative venue which had the best music was attened by a fraction of the people who went to see the big ticket "branded" attractions. So it was wunerful for us who like to get up close and intimate with our music. Overall, I thought and continue to think that pop music is going through a healthy transformation. Great stuff is being produced. More stuff on this as I lay out the fotos.

Vallejo Nocturno 2006 - The Thief's

The story is slightly simple, slightly complex. I went with my son and very good friend to the Virgin Festival in Baltimore. You will read my perspective on the music over the week-but The Thievery Corporation was very, very good. Their multi-vocal, multi-style presentation certainly makes for interesting but familiar music. The visuals tell you a story-it is of many people contributing, And the rythms were lethal.