“Baudrillard’s a smart guy but he’s a terrible traveller"

• +..Future-grit.


• +..Electro folk


• +..Folktronica

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For an anarchist, he has a remarkably traditional respect for rigor and cautious argument, as well as a great love for the dusty bibliographies and arcane disputes of classic scholarship. Still, he hates the academic world, and thanks God that a trickle of family money keeps him “independently poor.” This marginality grants him little status, for as he points out, “in America, the concept of an independent scholar is a null set.” This is a shame, not only because Wilson’s one of the few Americans writing about Islamic culture for a popular (or at least hipster) audience, but because his essays and lectures argue for the ultimate unity of imagination and intellectual investigation.
Davis, Erik