Social Drift

social drift A term used in social epidemiology, referring to movement down the social scale consequent on long-term sickness, which contributes to the of tnoted concentration of sick persons in the lower social groups. This downward mobility, which may be measured intergenerationally or intragenerationally, usually accounts for only part of the association between class and illness.

SOCIAL DRIFT SHORT NOISE WALL (CDR & free download compilation by Social Drift) Nineteen tracks of believe it or not short, maximum is under six minutes, of noise walls. The CDR has a detailed text which proposes a crisis in noise and attempts to offer a response to this crisis. The crisis being, it is argued that within culture use is now absent and this has been replaced by exchange value. This is defined as a ‘marketable meaning’, and one that noise does not evade. Noise as unstructured sound still has a cultural value. The argument runs that commercially successful noise and a virtual freedom from poetry will enable a new form of music. This relates to arguments which are difficult. Much of this discusses a validation of a personal vindication of poetry which resolves around the self. And in this a certain playfulness which is allowed in noise is vindicated. And this in turn vindicates “our sickness”. Noise’s “smallness” is it seems part of the fact that nonsense and meaninglessness can be sold. And this in turn makes its acceptance a sign of bourgeoisie inauthenticity. An interesting if complex way of justification of an activity, which it must be, “a response”. Has any response an exchange value? For sure it must, for a start it presupposes a causality. An much of what I find problematic here are such assumption, hidden or not. The organic response to any situation is fundamentally laden with telos. And there is nothing wrong with that, philosophy, metaphysics, is no different to any other praxis in this respect, no different to poetry or ballroom dancing. I t would be unfair to leave things there, as if there were no alternative, but that is there is one, one in which to state the inorganic is free of any telos, and then fail to be able to adequately respond to any rejoinder is to in effect become inorganic. And what and why should this be commendable, no reason, but it is in fact The Real. We can be as much the organon of pleasure as of extinction…. But, and, in both cases, in all cases we are justified, and in fact real, but only as a very specific real. And where that specifics plays is in the very act of value, choice, use. (jliat) Address: http://www.socialdrift.bandcamp.com