Newton’s mission clearly suggests a Romantic “return to origins,” specifically the pastoral origins of a lost homeland, so as to redirect his profits toward reviving a dying community that will presumably be founded on use rather than exchange values for his alien race and earthly allies. This restorative vision also would allow the fulfillment ofContinue reading “When David Bowie Fell to Earth”
Daily Archives: October 16, 2022
Bowie in Berlin, Part 1
It is the spring of 2003, midway through my first year in graduate school, and my friend Nathan had earlier that day acquired a used vinyl copy of David Bowie’s Station to Station from Amoeba Music. Some months later, we are driving down Sunset Boulevard listening to the song “Negativland” from Neu!’s 1972 debut album.Continue reading “Bowie in Berlin, Part 1”
The Philosophy of Contemporary Song 