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in 1881 an ancestor of mine, Noah Brookes was a bargeman at Netherton,
Dudley -right in the heart of nailmaking country, indeed all his family were
engaged in the like, making nails - and from this distance I feel angry on
their behalf, that we are still being ripped off, and perhaps theory like
the classics at oxbridge is a convenient way of not getting our hands
dirty...
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I don't feel this notion of The Artist with bits of broken vowel under his
fingernails ripped off by classist Theory is really up to the task you want
to give it. Disparaged, ripped off or whatever may or may not be right at
_some_ level. Lack of groundedness may or may not be right at another. But
it's a good deal more complex than that and not so picturesque.
CW
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the surface as a concept
materialised -
God, how ironical this is!
- by the notion of the boundary.
(Robert Ashley)
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