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Brad Nelson's Tumblr (in response to his saying that he's been thinking of dub as the center while being concurrently aware that there is no center and there never was):
I once argued that dub was central, or at least deserved pride of place as a fountain that watered a number of neighboring fields, while saying that sonically what it did was to take out its own center.
Here's where I tried to turn this idea into sense (but I then never tried to follow up on the thought).
Someone ought to pick up the thought and carry it somewhere.