#91: Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory of the Black Devouring Star, pt. 3 (Patreon)

MJ on "Blackstar" as musical mimesis of the relationship between American foreign policy and Middle Eastern terrorism contriving to bring about the Blackstar, how both Bowie and Don DeLillo saw 9/11 coming 25 years early, and Jean-Luc Ponty jerking off his violin.

(A quick note, because I say mimesis too often & don't know if that's in common parlance anymore: in the traditional lexicon of Greek art, probably attributable to Plato or Aristotle or some other over-influential boy-toucher, art had 3 basic faculties, mimesis, diegesis, and exegesis.  

Mimesis is the imitation of nature and the root of our "mime" and "mimic"; diegesis is the world of plot, the area of suspended disbelief in which what we'd now call storylines occur; and exegesis is interpretation and analysis, either by readers/viewers/listeners or, sometimes, within the art itself, as in the speeches that often close Greek plays.)