Comments on: The Esoteric Hip Hop Knowledge of The Black Dot http://www.alterati.com/blog/2007/06/the-esoteric-hip-hop-knowledge-of-the-black-dot/ After a long day, we know you can work up quite a thirst for tasty entrainment. Search no further. Alterati is the spot for home-brewed, 100 proof podcasts of the Alterati.com editorial team. In it you will find a delectable blend of original musics, audiobook and drama excerpts, interviews with artists and media theorists of the fringe, and hints of strawberry and motor oil. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:13:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Blankening » Getting From Nuwaubians to The Black Dot To The Matrix And Beyond http://www.alterati.com/blog/2007/06/the-esoteric-hip-hop-knowledge-of-the-black-dot/comment-page-1/#comment-168772 Blankening » Getting From Nuwaubians to The Black Dot To The Matrix And Beyond Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:24:02 +0000 http://www.alterati.com/blog/?p=589#comment-168772 [...] turned to looking… and lo and behold, I found just the thing I was looking for. I found The Black Dot. This guy is nothing short of amazing. He distills ideas out of all manner of contemporary black [...] [...] turned to looking… and lo and behold, I found just the thing I was looking for. I found The Black Dot. This guy is nothing short of amazing. He distills ideas out of all manner of contemporary black [...]

]]> By: alterati » Blog Archive » Into the Future http://www.alterati.com/blog/2007/06/the-esoteric-hip-hop-knowledge-of-the-black-dot/comment-page-1/#comment-159637 alterati » Blog Archive » Into the Future Tue, 27 May 2008 22:24:53 +0000 http://www.alterati.com/blog/?p=589#comment-159637 [...] come across my desktop this week. Digging back through the Alterati Archives you can read our coverage of the Black Dot. That was from last year… Here’s an update: A week or two ago someone uploaded The [...] [...] come across my desktop this week. Digging back through the Alterati Archives you can read our coverage of the Black Dot. That was from last year… Here’s an update: A week or two ago someone uploaded The [...]

]]> By: Morphic http://www.alterati.com/blog/2007/06/the-esoteric-hip-hop-knowledge-of-the-black-dot/comment-page-1/#comment-159636 Morphic Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:54:30 +0000 http://www.alterati.com/blog/?p=589#comment-159636 Keep On Keeping On, good stuff. Keep On Keeping On, good stuff.

]]> By: Ragabr http://www.alterati.com/blog/2007/06/the-esoteric-hip-hop-knowledge-of-the-black-dot/comment-page-1/#comment-159633 Ragabr Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:48:35 +0000 http://www.alterati.com/blog/?p=589#comment-159633 Kind of funny, I just thought about my workings with the Hip-Hop pantheon earlier today. I finished the workings when at a dance party and the spirit of Hip-Hop rode me; I only have hazy memories, though the spirit communicated with ill rhymes that I felt far beyond anything my surface mind could create. My friends could not believe my dancing, or so they told me. My first case of possession that did not occur while using any drugs. Kind of funny, I just thought about my workings with the Hip-Hop pantheon earlier today. I finished the workings when at a dance party and the spirit of Hip-Hop rode me; I only have hazy memories, though the spirit communicated with ill rhymes that I felt far beyond anything my surface mind could create. My friends could not believe my dancing, or so they told me. My first case of possession that did not occur while using any drugs.

]]> By: Dan http://www.alterati.com/blog/2007/06/the-esoteric-hip-hop-knowledge-of-the-black-dot/comment-page-1/#comment-159635 Dan Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:35:45 +0000 http://www.alterati.com/blog/?p=589#comment-159635 This is inspiring -- that metaphysical, spiritual information is making its way into hip hop culture and thinking. It's about time the frequencies are raised in that territory, although there's serious risks for abuse & faulty logic (of which I heard much in the three talks posted). Nevertheless, hip hop plays a critical role in modern life, just as Baroque played a critical role in the 1600s. We live in a cut-up society, in which sampling, and cuts, & scratching, and "stream of consciousness" cypher-spinning lyrics, and "broken" dance moves, etc. make up a large part of cultural expression: the MTV generation with the fast cut editing & ADHD? Collage & multicultural self-splitting diversity & narcissism so crucial to our survival and navigation of the modern world. This is inspiring — that metaphysical, spiritual information is making its way into hip hop culture and thinking. It’s about time the frequencies are raised in that territory, although there’s serious risks for abuse & faulty logic (of which I heard much in the three talks posted). Nevertheless, hip hop plays a critical role in modern life, just as Baroque played a critical role in the 1600s. We live in a cut-up society, in which sampling, and cuts, & scratching, and “stream of consciousness” cypher-spinning lyrics, and “broken” dance moves, etc. make up a large part of cultural expression: the MTV generation with the fast cut editing & ADHD? Collage & multicultural self-splitting diversity & narcissism so crucial to our survival and navigation of the modern world.

]]> By: The Matrix of Hip Hop at Offnominal http://www.alterati.com/blog/2007/06/the-esoteric-hip-hop-knowledge-of-the-black-dot/comment-page-1/#comment-159634 The Matrix of Hip Hop at Offnominal Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:02:35 +0000 http://www.alterati.com/blog/?p=589#comment-159634 [...] is some incredible stuff. The Alterati article is well worth the read too… Concepts and Techniques [...] [...] is some incredible stuff. The Alterati article is well worth the read too… Concepts and Techniques [...]

]]> By: Bood http://www.alterati.com/blog/2007/06/the-esoteric-hip-hop-knowledge-of-the-black-dot/comment-page-1/#comment-159632 Bood Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:24:56 +0000 http://www.alterati.com/blog/?p=589#comment-159632 Yea it'll be the Aeon of "Don't quit your day job". Yea it’ll be the Aeon of “Don’t quit your day job”.

]]> By: Zach Weber http://www.alterati.com/blog/2007/06/the-esoteric-hip-hop-knowledge-of-the-black-dot/comment-page-1/#comment-159631 Zach Weber Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:27:05 +0000 http://www.alterati.com/blog/?p=589#comment-159631 Honestly, the future that terrifies me most is the one where, more or less, nothing changes. The Grim Meathook Future, as other, better, writers have deemed it. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the old structures of authority maintain their grip on the world even as the rate of change accelerates, keep a lid on any sort of systematic restructuring of civilization. The people in power may change, and how they govern may change, but in the end there are always the bastards in charge and the governed, the few and the masses, the core and the periphery, exploiters and the exploited. Even your pessimistic outlook of the same old, same old seems like too much change, too fast to me, and I've lived more than half my life since 1990. We won't have commercially available brain chips in 2012. The tech will be there- it practically already is- but it'll be just another one of those marginalized science fiction elements edging into the peripherary of our awareness, like robot medics, bionic eyes, apes with cyberlimbs and nanomechanical bloodcell replacements. The people who have the power are too invested in keeping things the same to let it be otherwise, even the ones that supposedly thrive on growth and innovation. If the system works, why change it? Honestly, the future that terrifies me most is the one where, more or less, nothing changes. The Grim Meathook Future, as other, better, writers have deemed it. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the old structures of authority maintain their grip on the world even as the rate of change accelerates, keep a lid on any sort of systematic restructuring of civilization. The people in power may change, and how they govern may change, but in the end there are always the bastards in charge and the governed, the few and the masses, the core and the periphery, exploiters and the exploited.

Even your pessimistic outlook of the same old, same old seems like too much change, too fast to me, and I’ve lived more than half my life since 1990. We won’t have commercially available brain chips in 2012. The tech will be there- it practically already is- but it’ll be just another one of those marginalized science fiction elements edging into the peripherary of our awareness, like robot medics, bionic eyes, apes with cyberlimbs and nanomechanical bloodcell replacements.

The people who have the power are too invested in keeping things the same to let it be otherwise, even the ones that supposedly thrive on growth and innovation. If the system works, why change it?

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