If Nothing Is At Risk, Nothing Is

The Western Musical Canon Came About Not Merely By Accumulation, But By Opposition And Subversion, Both To The Ruling Powers On Whom Composers Depended For Their Livelihoods And To Other Musics.

Questioning The Nature And Implications Of Liminal Instances Necessarily Involves Failure, If Only In The Specifically Technical Sense Of Entering Spaces Where Prevailing Criteria Of Success Scarcely Apply.

If Nothing Is At Risk, Nothing Is Established.

The Idea Of 'machine Assemblage' Is, Especially, Very Alien To My Sensibility, Since It Suggests A Relative Indifference Of The Strata To One Another During The Process Of Construction.

I Suppose That The Scope And Implications Of Such Forces Have Rendered My Personal Accounting Ritual Pretty Much Obsolete. That's How Things Sometimes Go.