Slog - Comments on The Deterioration of an Image (NSFW) http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/the_deterioration_of_an_image A famous album cover: In his collection of essays, Small Acts, Paul Gilroy (the leading black intellectual of the 90s) writes: In Britain...[Hendrix's], portrait was banished to the interior of the Electric Ladyland sleeve by David King's celebrated photograph of nineteen naked women. Eighteen of them are 'white': a lone woman sits vacantly in the right mid-ground, offering a striking image of Hendrix's own displacement and isolation [in the UK] . That is the main meaning and power of the image. The black woman is isolated, an island, a stranger in a strange ladyland. 30 years after the photo was... Copyright 2008 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:54:40 -0800 Sun, 22 Apr 2007 07:48:20 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Andrew You're a wonder.

]]> Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/the_deterioration_of_an_image#c697294 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/the_deterioration_of_an_image#c697294 Music Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:14:00 -0800 Comment by Lark Hawk I think Moby's appropriation of the image is saying something. It says that he is bored by Hendrix. He is bored by the canon of rock music. He is bored by sex (and drugs and rock 'n' roll). It is something of an arrogant statement, but I think there is a lot of meaning in it.

]]> Lark Hawk http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/the_deterioration_of_an_image#c697306 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/the_deterioration_of_an_image#c697306 Music Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:24:00 -0800 Comment by Sam I like the NSFW warning in the headline. Cracked me up.

]]> Sam http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/the_deterioration_of_an_image#c697357 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/the_deterioration_of_an_image#c697357 Music Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:23:15 -0800 Comment by Sean "I think Moby's appropriation of the image is saying something."

He's gay?

]]> Sean http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/the_deterioration_of_an_image#c697364 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/the_deterioration_of_an_image#c697364 Music Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:31:41 -0800 Comment by j-lon Not to be the grammar and usage police, but is Moby really "disinterested" (i.e., a neutral or impartial observer with no opinion)? Or is he "uninterested"? (i.e., bored or lacking interest)?

]]> j-lon http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/the_deterioration_of_an_image#c697793 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/the_deterioration_of_an_image#c697793 Music Sat, 21 Apr 2007 03:18:46 -0800 Comment by charles j-lon, i used disinterested to reference kant's definition of beauty. if i had used uninterested, which is grammatically better, it would have cost me the kantian echo.

]]> charles http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/the_deterioration_of_an_image#c697929 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/the_deterioration_of_an_image#c697929 Music Sat, 21 Apr 2007 12:09:59 -0800 Comment by jackseattle Really, really good piece of writing. thx

]]> jackseattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/the_deterioration_of_an_image#c698162 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/the_deterioration_of_an_image#c698162 Music Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:04:09 -0800 Comment by Bach Good Charles, I believe you have a naked lady fetish.

]]> Bach Good http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/the_deterioration_of_an_image#c698284 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/the_deterioration_of_an_image#c698284 Music Sun, 22 Apr 2007 07:48:20 -0800