Experimenting the human : art, music, and the contemporary posthuman /

"In Experimenting the Human, G Douglas Barrett, himself an artist of experimental music, argues that a radical prefiguration of posthumanism can be found in the discourses and practices of postwar experimental music. Experimental music draws upon practices developed through exchanges between th...

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Автор: Barrett, G. Douglas (Автор)
Формат: Книга
Мова:Англійська
Опубліковано: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2023.
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505 0 |a Introduction: Music in a wired brain -- The brain at work: cognitive labor, the posthuman brain, and Alvin Lucier's Music for Solo Performer -- "How we were never posthuman": techniques of the posthuman body in Pamela Z's Voci -- "The catastrophe of technology": posthuman automata and Nam June Paik's Robot K-456 -- Deep (space) listening: SETI, Moonbounce, and Pauline Oliveros's Echoes from the Moon -- Engendering the digital: digitality and the posthuman hand in Laetitia Sonami's Lady's Glove -- The last invention: recursion, recordings, and Yasunao Tone's AI Deviation -- Conclusion: Music after extinction. 
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