Momus (musician)
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| - | {{Template}}'''Nick Currie''' (born [[February 11]],[[1960]] in [[Paisley]], [[Scotland]]), more popularly known under the [[artist name]] ''[[Momus]]'' (after the [[greek Mythology|Greek god]] of [[mockery]]), is a [[songwriter]], [[blog]]ger and a journalist for [[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]. Most of his songs are [[self-referential]] or [[postmodern]]. | + | {{Template}} |
| - | + | '''Nicholas Currie''' (born 11 February 1960), more popularly known under the [[artist name]] '''Momus''' (after the [[Momus|Greek god of mockery]]), is a songwriter, blogger and former journalist for ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]''. | |
| - | For more than twenty years he has been releasing, to only marginal commercial and critical success, playful and transgressive albums on labels in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Japan. In his lyrics and his other writing he makes seemingly random use of decontextualized pieces of continental (mostly French) philosophy, and has built up a personal world he says is "dominated by values like diversity, [[orientalism]], and a respect for otherness." He is also known in certain circles outside the U.S. as a producer. | + | |
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| - | He wears a patch over his right eye because he lost use of it from contracting [[acanthamoeba]] [[keratitis]] from a contact lens case washed with Greek tap water. | + | |
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| == On meta-reading == | == On meta-reading == | ||
| - | :"As a student of literature, something you find yourself doing a lot is reading books about books -- narratives which tear through the plot outlines, critical receptions and choicest quotes of other books, giving you some kind of rapid gist or taste of hundreds of titles you'll probably never read. What I've always liked about these books-about-books." | + | See [[Momus on meta-reading ]]{{GFDL}} |
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| - | He mentions | + | |
| - | *''[[Modernism]]'' by [[Malcolm Bradbury]] and | + | |
| - | *''[[Surréalisme et sexualité]]'' by [[Xavière Gauthier]] | + | |
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| - | He also mentions the fact that the paratext is often better than the text itself | + | |
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| - | :"In a weird, inverted way, some of the books which must be most hellish to read in real life, in real time, turn out, in these [[meta]]book accounts, to be the most entertaining to read '''about'''" (see [[paratext]]). | + | |
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| - | Example of the latter: | + | |
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| - | *''[[The Dream Life of Balso Snell]]'' by [[Nathanael West]] "anti-[[kunstleroman]]" | + | |
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| - | via [http://imomus.livejournal.com/301726.html The dream life of metabooks] | + | |
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| - | This reminds me of the following quote of O. Wilde: | + | |
| - | :"I never read a book I must [[review]], it [[prejudice]]s you so." --[[Oscar Wilde]] | + | |
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| - | and my own recent research in [[thematic literary criticism]] and my earlier [[Secondary_source#In_praise_of_secondary_literature|praise of secondary literature]] | + | |
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| - | Also this brings us to reviews of books we've never read. Stanislaw Lem wrote a few sets of introductions to and reviews of fictional books [http://www.rpi.edu/~sofkam/lem/#booksnotwritten here]. Borges has? | + | |
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| - | Interesting review in the latest Times Literary Supplement by [[Adrian Tahourdin]] of '[[Comment parler des livres que l'on n'a pas lus]]?' by [[Pierre Bayard]]. | + | |
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Nicholas Currie (born 11 February 1960), more popularly known under the artist name Momus (after the Greek god of mockery), is a songwriter, blogger and former journalist for Wired.
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