Undeleting Garden of Delete
Caesura founding editor Bret Schneider and contributing author Jensen Suther disagree on the cultural significance of Oneohtrix Point Never’s 2015 album, Garden of Delete. What began as a single review has blossomed into a collection of four essays that make up the most committed — and rigorous — critical engagement with OPN’s work to date.
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What role can criticism possibly play in completing works of art, or “fulfilling” them?
Garden of Delete is the “determinate negation” of the Garden of Eden, whose claim to innocence it debunks.
Oneohtrix Point Never is the highest expression of the art of middlebrow pastiche.