The musicians found common ground, along with sharp new ways of contesting it.
The other day, standing on a broad avenue in Manhattan, staring incredulously left and right at the smooth canyons of aligned buildings, I found myself asking whether this island — with all the strong-arming that its creation required — could have been made in 2012 America, where so many more people have a vote, a voice, property rights and ways of contesting power.
Whatever else the new year may bring in the way of contests, rivalries and powerplays for public favor, for audio fans the battle between these approaches to digital sound will be one of the more entertaining sideshows.
Publishing new writing by way of contests implies a certain metaphysical attitude--the model privileges randomness, divisibility, fragmentation, unknowability, and nondeterminism, perfected and ground through a process of rationalization to the presumed opposite of these conditions.
"There's no way to contest any part of the official record without it being spun in a way that makes you look sicker".
Corresponding to the two central premises, there are two ways to contest this line of reasoning.
The universal platform for virtual reality is called the Oasis, and following the death of its creator, the Oasis and several hundred boatloads of money are up for grabs by way of a contest set up by the late founder.
"But if he gives a good account of himself and comes through on Saturday, we'll try and get him a fight with either of them two next". Standing in his way of those contests is former world title challenger Petrov, 34, who has only been knocked out once by Marcos Maidana, the Argentine who lost to Britain's Amir Khan and Floyd Mayweather twice.
Along the way he contests some of the most common objections to restrictions on religiously motivated actors speaking religiously in public (283-92).
