QUESTIONS - SPACE-ART

It has to be understood (which I should’ve provided earlier in the blog) that I am talking about ‘space’ here—commercialised, art, hip-hop or whatever—in terms or what ‘art’ may mean within popular discourses—that it’s a highly regulated ‘space’ appealing firstly to popular ideas but which is imbued with personal intentions. It incorporates almost every analysis about art I can think of—at least some elements of these analyses. From Plato to Aristotle, Nietzsche to Heidegger and every other dude who has attempted to centralise it into a particular understanding. Firstly, I would assume for the time being that music as in hip-hop is a ‘space’ within a ‘space’ or ‘art’ within a ‘art’ in a door within a door sense of understanding. This is in relation to the media—especially as there are no instances in which both are regarded with agency radically detached from society or an actual author. It is always from the outset a mechanical element in the sense that its constitutive elements—whether physical or conceptual—are externally united in time and space—Mikhail Bakhtin’s ‘Art and Answerability’.

Here with hip-hop and Nas, there is already an anticipating event in which we must regard the awareness of the author in relation to the filtering ‘space’ through which his art must always be processed—that the first element we have to look for in his art is the ways in which he has incorporated the media into his contents. Given the highly regulated and politicised manner of this space, how does he put together these elements into such an ‘art’ which must be defined in part by this space? How does his art incorporate this fundamental and transcendental fact into the dimensions of his art?—in ways that these factual and inborn elements would have no negative effects on the message he hope to portray and inform the outside world? Or, how does he appeal to these fundamental facts imbued in our understanding of the media as a commercialised space? How do you package a certain history created over hundreds of years into a ‘space’ regulated against any elements which display risks of undermining it and the power that overlooks it?

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