Katherine Hirt: When Machines Play Chopin: Musical Spirit and Automation in Nineteenth-Century German Literature (2010)
Filed under book | Tags: · 1800s, aesthetics, android, automation, history of literature, language, literature, machine, mechanics, music, music history, musical instruments, philosophy, phonograph
“When Machines Play Chopin brings together music aesthetics, performance practices, and the history of automated musical instruments in nineteenth-century German literature. Philosophers defined music as a direct expression of human emotion while soloists competed with one another to display machine-like technical perfection at their instruments. This book looks at this paradox between thinking about and practicing music to show what three literary works say about automation and the sublime in art.”
Publisher De Gruyter, 2010
Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies series, 8
ISBN 3110232405, 9783110232400
170 pages
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Abstract of the thesis (2008)
Comment (0)Speculations V: Aesthetics in the 21st Century (2014)
Filed under journal | Tags: · aesthetics, art, avant-garde, literature, philosophy, speculative realism, theory
“Ever since the turn of the century aesthetics has steadily gained momentum as a central field of study across the disciplines. No longer sidelined, aesthetics has grown in confidence. While this recent development brings with it a return to the work of the canonical authors (most notably Baumgarten and Kant), some contemporary scholars reject the traditional focus on epistemology and theorize aesthetics in its ontological connotations. It is according to this shift that speculative realists have proclaimed aesthetics as “first philosophy” and as speculative in nature. With speculative realism aesthetics no longer necessarily implies human agents. This is in alignment with the general speculative realist framework for thinking all kinds of processes, entities, and objects as free from our allpervasive anthropocentrism which states, always, that everything is “for us.”
This special issue of Speculations: A Journal of Speculative Realism explores the ramifications of what could be termed the new speculative aesthetics. In doing so, it stages a three-fold encounter: between aesthetics and speculation, between speculative realism and its (possible) precursors, and between speculative realism and art and literature.”
With contributions by Steven Shaviro, Theodor Leiber and Kirsten Voigt Sellars, Matija Jelača, Claire Colebrook, N. Katherine Hayles, Jon Cogburn and Mark Allan Ohm, Miguel Penas López, Graham Harman, Bettina Funcke, Thomas Gokey, Robert Jackson, Roberto Simanowski, Francis Halsall, Magdalena Wisniowska Disegno, and Sjoerd van Tuinen.
Edited by Ridvan Askin, Paul J Ennis, Andreas Hägler, and Philip Schweighauser
Publisher punctum books, Brooklyn, NY, May 2014
Creative Commons License BY-NC-SA
ISBN 0692203168, 9780692203163
ISSN 2327-803X
474 pages
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Hermetes Reis de Araújo (ed.): Tecnociência e cultura: ensaios sobre o tempo presente (1998) [Portuguese]
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, philosophy, society, technology, technoscience
Os textos aqui reunidos, contrapondo alguns dos principais pensadores da área da história das ciências e das técnicas bem como dos novos fenômenos tecnológicos e midiáticos, são em sua maior parte inéditos e representam uma contribuição importante para as ciências humanas em sua tarefa de tradução deste mundo moldado pela ciência, pela mídia, pela informática, pela biotecnologia, por novas formas de organização política e por novos modos de percepção estética impregnados de tecnologia.
Com textos de Hermetes Reis de Araújo, Paul Virilio, Laymert Garcia dos Santos, Gilbert Simondon, Gilles Châtelet, Bruno Latour, Cécile Schwartz, Florian Charvolin, Stéphane Huchet, Achim Seiler, Hermínio Martins, François Laruelle.
Publisher Estação Liberdade, São Paulo, 1998
ISBN 8585865865, 9788585865863
269 pages
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