Schizo-babble signals hide inside commercial jingles and classified ads
Evidence
But I don’t think there’s been anyone since Mark E. Smith at his telepathic peak in the late Seventies/early Eighties who has managed to tune into the rogue frequencies of England’s schizo-babble as effectively as the Baron does here. Mordant finds all the clandestine signals hidden in jingles and classified ads. He channels the voices of the lonely, the desperate, all the weirdos and the saddoes; ourselves, perhaps, but the secret selves we keep stuffed behind our Facebook walls. Yet there are still avenues of escape — on a couple of tracks, an infant’s babbling offers an alternative Nonsense to capital’s infantilised huckster-speak. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1344
Categorization
- XREF: Recalls Fisher’s earlier claim that characters identified by death-drive repetitions replace conventional interiority (ch 13) — here the secret selves behind the social-media facade are channelled through found speech. — connects to: Advertising’s suspicion-inducing logic extends to political propaganda; Ads dwell within the psyche and shape all internal speech forms — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1169