Spooky rap translated!

By DJ D.J.

For the first time anywhere, The Dues offers a postmodernist translation service. We premier the service with some phrases rendered into English from the Academese of DJ Spooky:

Original: "Replication: Asymmetric. Telekinetic. Dialectic. Flow. The body as a site of textual malleability."

Translation: "By combining a philosophical notion, dialectics, with largely discredited ideas of extra-sensory perception, it is possible to pretend that your body is a book (with subtitles). Can I have a grant, please?"

Original: "The mind as a locale of total recall. Total displacement. Who's there? Erogenous, decoded amnesia. Biopsychic paradoxes. Eclipse of the self. Prosthetic. Synthetic. Memetic. Technophilia..."

Translation: "Who is there indeed? Nobody. Or everybody. It scarcely matters. If you string together a series of words ending with "ic" thus showing how interesting the influence of classical languages is on English, it is possible to prove yourself to be the intellectual equivalent of an animal possessing the same suffix: the tic.

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Good Causes & the Tsunami

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The third day of the upcoming three day Melbourne Music Festival has been turned into a benefit for the victims of the recent Tsunami tragedy, a very noble cause. Did poor sales for this year's event (relocated to the Music Bowl) have any influence on this decision? Intelligence believes the local musos booked for paid appearances on the third day found to their disappointment that they were being asked to "donate their services". Sounds of said disappointment, have been heard quite loudly. Intelligence wonders if this spirit of generosity extends to the promoters? Are they taking nothing from this benefit? We would also be very surprised indeed if the same proposal was put to the overseas artists booked for day 3. One can imagine the conversation: "Yes, you have flown half way across the world to get here, but you don't mind if we don't pay you, do you? It's for a very good cause." We are almost certain this did not happen, However one can always be surprised, human nature is always unpredictable.

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