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Stuart, I think it’s safe to say that you have been driven your whole life by your pursuits of music and philosophy.
Yes, to some extent, but I’m kind of interested in everything. For instance, I have never stopped being a committed communist and I believe the end of red fascism in Eastern Europe was a small hiccough in a much longer story which continues to unfold. This is probably more of a core belief life driver.
OK, but look at what you have actually done with your life. You did very little else but play music in front of people from the ages of 13 to 35, while reading philosophy in your spare time. Then you decided it was time to get serious about the philosophy bit and go to university and you got a PhD and worked in universities for 15 years.
Yes, but I studied in a school of Communications and then did my PhD in a school of Performance Studies.
Only because you thought schools of philosophy were dominated by Anglo-American philosophy which began with premises built on other premises which were ultimately ungrounded and disappeared up its own arsehole. But your whole life you read poststructuralism which raises disappearing up its own arsehole to the level of an artform.
Yes, but I turned to phenomenology early on in my undergraduate career because at least it thematised the need for a move towards some sense of grounding while still haunted by its own intuition of ungroundability.
No doubt. But to bring it back to the question, what are you doing here in TMRI?
That’s a complex and multilayered question. Not difficult or mysterious like the questions I prefer to deal with, but it’s got lots of moving parts.
Well we’ve got 1,000 words here and we’ve already used 300, so you’d better get on with it.
Well, the reason I ended up in the barely emergent discipline of Performance Philosophy was because in all my creative efforts I have seen them not as trying to produce aesthetic artefacts for consumption in systems of exchange, but as explorations in different ways of knowing and being. Since I’ve been working with the team in tMRI, this has remained my main concern...
But you stayed there for over a decade.
Yes, I compromised my principles for the money, power, and privilege it afforded...
So what now?
Good question. I enjoy the way saying good question sets up the frame for the answer...
Good answer. OK you two, I’m glad you’re amused, but at least try to keep on track...
OK, let me continue where I left off... (긴 철학적 문단 그대로 넣으면 됨)
All fine and noble rhetoric. You must feel pretty intoxicated by a chemical shower of virtue when you say those things.
Yes I do. So you are seeking virtue and being seen to be virtuous?... (마지막 문단)
You’re full of shit aren’t you.
Yes.