Experimenting the Human: Art, Music, and the Contemporary Posthuman - Softcover

Barrett, G Douglas

 
9780226823409: Experimenting the Human: Art, Music, and the Contemporary Posthuman
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226823407 ISBN 13: 9780226823409
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

An engaging argument about what experimental music can tell us about being human.

In Experimenting the Human, G Douglas Barrett argues that experimental music speaks to the contemporary posthuman, a condition in which science and technology decenter human agency amid the uneven temporality of postwar global capitalism. Time moves forward for some during this period, while it seems to stand still or even move backward for others. Some say we’re already posthuman, while others endure the extended consequences of never having been considered fully human in the first place. Experimental music reflects on this state, Barrett contends, through its interdisciplinary involvements in postwar science, technology, and art movements.

Rather than pursuing the human's beyond, experimental music addresses the social and technological conditions that support such a pursuit. Barrett locates this tendency of experimentalism throughout its historical entanglements with cybernetics, and in his intimate analysis of Alvin Lucier’s neurofeedback music, Pamela Z’s BodySynth performances, Nam June Paik’s musical robotics, Pauline Oliveros’s experiments with radio astronomy, and work by Laetitia Sonami, Yasunao Tone, and Jerry Hunt. Through a unique meeting of music studies, media theory, and art history, Experimenting the Human provides fresh insights into what it means to be human.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

G Douglas Barrett is assistant professor in the Media Arts Department at New Jersey City University.
 


 

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226823407
ISBN 13 
9780226823409
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1
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226
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