hiphop discourse

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Phil Wise wrote:

> Yet eminem's characters, including the ones he
> constructs around his stage name and his real name, represent the movement
> of the commodity in the society of the spectacle - it will do anything to
> get noticed and distributed, there is very little to check its path, and I
> take that be a political message the text invites.

Thanks, Phil, for an excellent post and also, and I mean that seriously, for
referring to Guy Debord's "Society of the Spectacle". This book tells us more
about the world we're living than any other text I can think of - and sometimes
even more than I want to be told.

Thomas