Monthly Archives: September 2017

Collaborative listening

Posted on September 30, 2017 by Vassilis Lambropoulos

The major Modernist auditory regime was Adorno’s “structural hearing” where the expert listener “understands what he perceives as necessary” (Introduction to the Sociology of Music [1976], 4-5) while the great work is listening to its fallen singularity. Composers, performers, and … Continue reading →

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The Friend and his Beloved

Posted on September 18, 2017 by Vassilis Lambropoulos

When a close friend talks to me about love in their lives, the world is suspended, and for a while nothing else matters. Pantelis often talks to me with melodic tenderness about the woman of his dreams. He describes her … Continue reading →

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Renouncing politics

Posted on September 2, 2017 by Vassilis Lambropoulos

As the funeral march for the revolution continues to intone the exhaustion of the emancipatory project, and left melancholy sets the mood of post-revolutionary critique, claims for radical negativity acquire a special appeal in the Trump era. What if not … Continue reading →

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