"the mystical writings of Sun Ra (which we discussed in chapter one)"
Since then, Peter Adamson and Chike Jeffers have done an episode on Afrofuturism (mostly Sun Ra and Octavia E. Butler) on "The History of Africana Philosophy":
"When we encounter a text attributed incorrectly (by contemporary standards), we consider it a forgery or plagiarism."
And this reminds me of Jorge Luis Borges, at the end of "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quijote" (here in James E. Irby's translation):
"Menard (perhaps without wanting to) has enriched, by means of a new technique, the halting and rudimentary art of reading: this new technique is that of the deliberate anachronism and the erroneous attribution."
"Menard (acaso sin quererlo) a enriquecido mediante una técnica nueva el arte detenido y rudimentario de la lectura: la técnica del anacronismo deliberado y de las atribuciones erróneas."
I have a few personal annotations:
"at least on a few transformative occasions, maybe at a memorable concert you still think about years later"
This made me think of Adam Zagajewski's "Try to Save the Mutilated World":
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57095/try-to-praise-the-mutilated-world-56d23a3f28187
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"the mystical writings of Sun Ra (which we discussed in chapter one)"
Since then, Peter Adamson and Chike Jeffers have done an episode on Afrofuturism (mostly Sun Ra and Octavia E. Butler) on "The History of Africana Philosophy":
https://historyofphilosophy.net/afrofuturism
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"When we encounter a text attributed incorrectly (by contemporary standards), we consider it a forgery or plagiarism."
And this reminds me of Jorge Luis Borges, at the end of "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quijote" (here in James E. Irby's translation):
"Menard (perhaps without wanting to) has enriched, by means of a new technique, the halting and rudimentary art of reading: this new technique is that of the deliberate anachronism and the erroneous attribution."
"Menard (acaso sin quererlo) a enriquecido mediante una técnica nueva el arte detenido y rudimentario de la lectura: la técnica del anacronismo deliberado y de las atribuciones erróneas."