MILITANT ESTHETIX

A superb, if not slightly disorientating website, set up by Ben Watson, author of Frank Zappa: The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play (Quartet, 1994). Covering almost everything under the sun that you had never even thought worth considering before.


"MILITANT ESTHETIX has advanced the quivering tip of the visual pyramid into Esemplastic Heraclitean Infinity. With our floating upright lyric (blue and sparkling) and plagiarist communism (Trotskoid and betusked) we burst through the indigo (possibly of coal-tarred synthetic origin) lampshade of the firmament, slog beyond, abandonning the petty purple (mauveine?) mortality of the merely individual to the bruised condition of a historical-non-historical life. Let spill the fire! Sizzle. Drip. Drip. Arrows, speak."

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