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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מחבר ראשי: Barrett, G. Douglas (Author)
פורמט: ספר
שפה:אנגלית
יצא לאור: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2023.
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תוכן הענינים:
  • 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.