kodwo eshun's more brilliant than the sun book - C or D?

I can fathom Simon Reynolds' analytical approach, but Eshun's Wire-bound sonic fragmentations get buried in wordy jargon that the casual reader can lose interest very quickly.

I will re-aquaint myself with it at some stage though.

I noticed that there’s a reference in Toop’s Haunted Weather, which I can’t work out is dismissive – Thinking back now, maybe it’s more neutral…but then More Brilliant… isn’t listed in the Bibliography…?

yesterday I speed-read and notated Toop's Ocean of Sound and it was pretty smooth going. Today I'm trying to do the same with this. Distinctly less smooth, but I'm liking it very much so far. The zings are nicely brutal, and I'm enjoying his particular way of taking concepts from other writers and smashing them into each other and everything else he can find. Anyone else read it / had thoughts on it in the past five and a half years?

Every time I try, I get bored. Wish he didn't try to be so clever with his style. Anyone want to buy it off me?

i love this book to death. regularly revisit it, and always understand it a bit more as a result.

brotherlovesdub - i think its OOP and therefore worth DIRTY CASH just some advice

72 quid used on Amazon :(

yeah, I've been enjoying my library copy so much that I went to Amazon hoping to find it for, ooh, £8, and oyyy. Needs 1 reprint, quick.

PDF considerably cheaper :) but not mad keen on reading books via computer

SEVENTY TWO QUID!!!

OCRed PDF also significantly quicker for transcribing passages! But reading in that format isn't ideal for me either. Although people doing academic etc stuff could be bothered when it was all handwriting all the time I do not HEY LOOK A BUTTERFLY.

(at the moment, after reading the Parliament section, I'm wondering how many times I can use the word 'booty' in my dissertation and get away with it.)

how people etc etc.

tenner in german translation tho

Drexciya section wd be cool in German obv but don't think my reading skills wd be up to it

crashing rocks books in florida is doing it for £195.24, maybe j0rdan can do you a solid

Can't do books in pdf either - tried to read Voice of New Music and its a fail :-(

I enjoy this book to death and my copy is beyond dogeared. Wish it came back into print.

i've sold two copies of this on amazon for £££s - the first was a copy i picked up secondhand, i think i sold it for £80, then i sold my own battered copy for around the same amount a few weeks later. i'd like to have it again but it was good to have the dosh at the time.

Genius book written by a genius.

DONE. Loved the Sun Ra section, could feel me head rearrange itself as I read it. Not sure how much of the overarching themes and arguments I grasped from that speedy read, but there are flashes of brilliance everywhere.

price will only go up when he wins the turner prize

Somewhat (but not very) ashamed that my copy is in fairly pristine condition.

He pops into the shop I work in sometimes and I always want to tell him that I love this book. But I wimp put everytime.

you should!

what's the man up to these days?

jed, i wasn't kidding abt the turner prize!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/turner-prize/7679081/Turner-Prize-2010-shortlist-in-pictures.html?image=9

oh right, i'll look into that.

looks kind of chris marker-ish?

he's also co-editing an upcoming edition of the journal Third Text, tentatively titled 'Third Cinema'. Dunno if he'll be writing anything for it too. (I know this because a friend of mine has translated a few articles for it, including one on Chris Marker's Loins du Vietnam. Yay my friend.)

you should!

what's the man up to these days?

― jed_, Sunday, 25 July 2010 13:06 (2 hours ago) Bookmark

He teaches an MA at Goldsmiths.

In fact he's a lecturer in Visual/Aural Culture. ALWAYS surprised that the Guardian is 40p for some reason.

it's a pound tho innit?

Not in our student union shop. I think most universities sell the Guardian/Independent at a discounted price (Indy's 60p here).

i'd be surprised every day as well!

looks like this is getting reprinted!
https://www.amazon.com/More-Brilliant-than-Kodwo-Eshun/dp/1784786721/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1469132255&sr=1-1&keywords=kodwo+eshun

guess I should have sold my copy for a ridiculously high price? in any case, everyone should pick it up when it's out

Much referenced since its original publication in 1998, but long unavailable, this new edition includes an introduction by Kodwo Eshun as well as texts by filmmaker John Akomfrah and producer Steve Goodman aka kode9.

:o

it is indeed http://thequietus.com/articles/22679-more-brilliant-than-the-sun-reissue I've never read this so looking forward to picking up a copy

It’s coming out, like, next October or something.

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2342-more-brilliant-than-the-sun

this finally gets reissued in a couple of weeks.

Is it too late to sell my original edition for a bazillion dollars?

Was just wondering that too. That book was my retirement plan!

me three

four fuck's sake why did i wait so long

this didn't actually get released and is now no longer on the Verso website and is "currently unavailable" (the new version, that is) rather than pre-order on Amazon. I tweeted Verso to ask what happened but got no reply.

was going to reread when the reissue came out, but I guess I’ll either read one of the pdfs or pull my (apparently increasingly valuable again) copy off the shelf. amazon usa officially cancelled preorders of the digital version, too

What's the going rate?

looks like a hundred on amazon (us)

it’s a bit dated

Richard Skelton is selling a copy here:

https://www.corbelstonepress.com/library-sale?page=4

Wasn't this getting republished at some point?

lol more than one

maybe he's aiming for the 25th anniversary

Where is the best place to sell a copy of this book? Best meaning most money for least effort.

I guess it depends on how you feel about Amazon?

(There's actually a copy being advertised at £197.50).

abe has copies ("new") at £500+ and "good" at c.£400

and Spanish and German language copies cheapish.