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Instead, the pair engages in a dialectical debate about the perils of modernity, focused through an eerily post-colonial conversation in which Lif subtly enslaves Insight with the allure of modern techno-commerce. Does pegging them “conscious rappers” do justice to the scope of their creative project, as much an experiment in form as a social critique...
...this point, it seems as though conscious appeals to the academic merit of his work aren’t even needed. Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Jorie Graham was so inspired by Aesop’s lyrics that she assigned one of her poetry classes to bring in samples of rap lyrics for analysis...
Jarcho says that the band was a bunch of kids who were “too self-conscious to be popular, too ironical to be punk, too awesome not to be friends.,” and feels that the band was often an outlet...
These oddities, in fact, seem to be the result of a self-conscious effort to make the movie more interesting by the addition of material that actually strikes the viewer as extraneous and awkward amid the interviews. The trippy montage of pole dancers is simply disorienting; there is no call for nudity in an Enron documentary, whether or not it breaks up the monotony...
When done right, however, Schimert sees a value in public art that comes from its constancy: it can be revisited on a regular basis, no matter how conscious the visitor...