Future Pitchfork contributor?
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Iāve never heard this expression, isnāt it usually Marmite?!
To keep it somewhat on topic, I agree that not every time somebody says āsexyā they mean it in actual sexual terms. I know somebody who describes food as āfitā but that doesnāt mean they want to fuck it.
Should see the way guns are sexualized here in the US. This is nothing.
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The G in GAS on many American 'fora stands for glock!
Vegemite, Marmite, Marmaladeā¦ I always mix them up as I find them all equally disgusting 
Iāve called many designs sexy, a new Elektron box or someoneās studio. Nothing sexual about it. Just a word to describe something. Context matters. Objectophilia is vey rare. Famous is the German women who was married to the Berlin Wall. It does make me wonder if anyone ever married their synth lol.
This article didnāt even bother to mention the sexwithsubwoofers forum.
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ā¦in modern civilisation, there are all kinds of fetishismā¦
for all imaginable and even unimaginable objects, details, behaviours, fondness and circumstancesā¦
always was, always will beā¦and constantly growingā¦
and all sorts of sonic gear is pretty much one of the very most obviousā¦come onā¦
no need for even slightest academic approaches, reallyā¦
a fetish is in most cases tied to some sexual conotation, which is total bullshitā¦
it can come and go all directionsā¦
and every artist for example, needs to find his/her personal fetish of some kind, aware or unaware of it, or anything inbetween, to get things even startedā¦
especially in a more and more wannabeemeetoo fake it til u make it world weāre livinā inā¦
we all better have some fetish to keep it realā¦
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Academic writing like this is the exact same thing as gear hoarding.
On the desk of their mind, they create a "dream setup (i.e. thesis) of āgearā by stringing together as many of the erection-inducing words and claims of the current academic circleā¦
hegemony, bodies, liminal, queering, space, power
Those are just a bunch of fucking shiny modules in a ācritical theoryā format paper aka rack.
These people are full of resentment toward the world around them that is just getting on with making art+music / families / jobs / normal life.
Iāve had it with academics, I used to be part of that 20 years ago and now I feel like I was in some cult.
Sorry, some of that frustration is also directed at myself. That was an unusual rant for me. Iām currently frustrated with some life challenges and struggling with my own feelings of being taunted by the tools themselves.
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#noknobktober?
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Yāall.
Making generalizations about academia based on this one text is the equivalent of an academic basing the entire music gear world on one poster is GS.
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touchƩ, but, academic writing in the humanities has a reputation for a reason
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I donāt think there is a single self-aware academic who would disagree with you.
But thats the game. Sometimes it can produce really beautiful stuff. The linked paper is not one of those times.
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What little oasis of happiness do we have left?
Vade Retro Misery. I will have my fun, not bothering anyone, twisting my knobs until the end of time.
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comment retracted, I was having an extraordinarily bad day.
Iām confused if women are supposed to possibly by offended by people saying they look good, or that gear looks good and it should be them instead?
Orā¦
We feed the paper, line by line, to Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, and have a laugh at all the sexy creatures with knobs all over their bodies magically created 
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My Matriarch finds this thread uncomfortable.
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Is it because it is in living color, or dark?
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If someone is offended or upset by being told they look goodā¦it is because the message was intercepted and translated by an intermediary mental processāa cognitive reframing device. Theyāre ascribing a deeper meaning to a simple compliment. And itās sad. Sometimes compliments serve more to inflame earlier emotional memories of rejection and the accumulated resentment toward the painful and unfair realities of human sexual selection or the tendencies for people to get reduced to their appearance, or professional role.
And it can cut both ways. If a woman expressed interest in me, I wouldnāt take it well. I would think she was either maliciously teasing me, or just mistaken in her perception.
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