Americans go home–which is more American, Paris‐Texas or Paris‐France?

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I too have stayed with Paris far too long, and while I would like to thank Keith Reader for inviting me to give this paper at the conference “Parisian Topographies” held at the University of Glasgow in July 2003, I hope that it will be the very last of its kind for me.

It is worth remembering that if the USA always rather liked European fascist generals in either Greece or Spain, some, like Salazar in Portugal, resisted Coca Cola, while the merely Gaullist Charles de Gaulle really sent the Americans packing.

Ned Rorem, The Paris and New York Diaries (San Franciso: North Point Books, 1983); and Settling the Score, Essays on Music (New York: Anchor Books, 1985).

Ned Rorem, Knowing When to Stop, A Memoir (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994) 396.

Rorem, The Paris and New York Diaries, 91.

Rorem, Knowing When to Stop, 382.

My article, Total Ellipsis, first published in parallax 2 (1995), is now available as a PDF file on my website, www.gai‐savoir.com See Susan Buck‐Morss, The Dialectics of Seeing, Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (Cambridge: MIT, 1989) 304 ff. See also Black, Blanc, Beur: Rap Music and Hip‐Hop Culture in the Francophone World edited by Alain‐Philippe Durand (New York 2003).

“More books on Benjamin and still the pile grows…Benjamin's prose breeds commentary like vaccine in a lab.” Peter Osborne, quoted as the incipit to de‐, dis‐, ex‐. The Optic of Walter Benjamin, ed. Alex Coles, number 3, Black Dog, London, 1999, (unpaginated).

Now the set of a trendy film set in Indian Paris, but for the international interest in this area, see www.outloookindia.com.

The literature on Techno and Rap in these journals is immense, as it has become in mainstream newpapers as well. In Le Monde or Libération they are totally normal, without for that matter appearing to bring about any change in concepts of the national, the ethnic, gender or whatever. For TTC, hear Ceci N'est Pas Un Disque, Big Dada Disques, 2003.

Renaud Camus, K310 (Paris: 2000) 289.

For Dustan see an entretien at http://www.fluctuat.net/livres/interview/dustan.htm; and for typical writing see either Plus fort que moi (Paris: POL, 1998) and Dans ma chambre (Paris: POL, 1999) or Génie Divin, Paris: Le Rayon, Balland, 2001).