Generation Ecstasy For my book report I read Generation Ecstasy. ... His central tool for resolving this contradiction is the idea of the "drug-tech interface": the reciprocal relationship between Ecstasy (and other less central intoxicants) and machine music that resulted in a feedback loop between sounds geared to enhance the rush, and rushes that inspired producers to take sound into new spaces. ...
When Starbuck complains, "I came here to hunt whales, not my commander's vengeance" (235), he is not merely displaying his habitually conventional way of thinking of things. ... Obedience to the rules is not an end in itself; indeed, for Madison, the rules themselves are crafted only to create a space in which may flourish the diverse powers of individuals living under them to earn their living or otherwise carve out a life for themselves. ... Similarly, Starbuck does not see whaling as an end in itself, but merely as a means to his own ends-quite conventionally domestic ones,...
