Jacques Attali: Noise: The Political Economy of Music (1977–) [FR, EN, ES, TR]

“Attali’s essential argument in Noise: The Political Economy of Music is that music, as a cultural form, is intimately tied up in the mode of production in any given society. For Marxist critics, this idea is nothing new. The novelty of Attali’s work is that it reverses the traditional understandings about how revolutions in the mode of production take place.

Attali believes that music has gone through four distinct cultural stages in its history: Sacrificing, Representing, Repeating, and a fourth cultural stage which could roughly be called Post-Repeating. These stages are each linked to a certain “mode of production”; that is to say, each of these stages carries with it a certain set of technologies for producing, recording and disseminating music, and also concomitant cultural structures that allow for music’s transmission and reception.”

French edition
Publisher PUF, Paris, 1977
301 pages

English edition
Translated by Brian Massumi
Foreword by Fredric Jameson
Afterword by Susan McClary
Publisher Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1985
Theory and History of Literature, Volume 16
ISBN 0719014719, 9780719014710
179 pages

Reviews: Edinburgh Review (1986), Dana Polan (SubStance, 1988), Ronald M. Radano (Ethnomusicology, 1989), Steven Shaviro (2005), notbored.org (n.d.), J. Szigeti (2014).
Outline: Theodore Gracyk.
Commentary: Eric Drott (Critical Inquiry, 2015).

Wikipedia

Bruits: essai sur l’economie politique de la musique (French, 1977, added on 2021-4-11)
Bruits: essai sur l’economie politique de la musique (French, new ed., 1977/2001, added on 2013-9-25, updated on 2021-4-11)
Noise: The Political Economy of Music (English, 1985, updated on 2012-7-24)
Ruidos: ensayos sobre economía política de la música (Spanish, trans. Ana María Palos, 1995, updated on 2021-4-11)
Gürültüden müziğe: müziğin ekonomi-politiği üzerine (Turkish, trans. Gülüş Gülcügil Türkmen, 2005/2014, EPUB, added on 2021-4-11)

Michel de Certeau: The Practice of Everyday Life, 2 vols. (1980–) [EN, PT, ES, CR]

Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the all-pervasive forces of commerce, politics, and culture. In exploring the public meaning of ingeniously defended private meanings, de Certeau draws brilliantly on an immense theoretical literature in analytic philosophy, linguistics, sociology, semiology, and anthropology–to speak of an apposite use of imaginative literature.

This social history of “making do” is based on microhistories that move from the private sphere (of dwelling, cooking, and homemaking) to the public (the experience of living in a neighborhood). The second volume of this magnum opus delves even deeper than did the first into the subtle tactics of resistance and private practices that make living a subversive art.

French edition
L’invention du quotidien, I, arts de faire, Gallimard, 1980
L’invention du quotidien, II, habiter, cuisiner, Gallimard, 1994

English edition
Translated by Steven Rendall
Publisher University of California Press, 1984
ISBN 0520236998, 9780520236998
229 pages

English edition, Volume 2: Living & Cooking
With Luce Giard and Pierre Mayol
Translated by Timothy J. Tomasik
University of Minnesota Press, 1998
ISBN 0816628777, 9780816628773
292 pages

Wikipedia (EN)
Publisher (EN, Vol. 1)
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The Practice of Everyday Life (English, trans. Steven Rendall, 1984, updated on 2013-9-28)
The Practice of Everyday Life, Vol. 2: Living and Cooking (English, trans. Timothy J. Tomasik, 1998, added on 2013-9-28)
A invenção do cotidiano (Portuguese, trans. Ephraim Ferreira Alves, Third edition, 1998, added on 2013-9-28)
La invención de lo cotidiano. 1 Artes de hacer (Spanish, trans. Alejandro Pescador, 2000, added on 2013-9-28)
La invención de lo cotidiano. 2 Habitar, cocinar (Spanish, trans. Alejandro Pescador, 1999, added on 2013-9-28)
Invencija svakodnevnice (Croatian, trans. Gordana Popovic, 2002, added on 2013-9-28)

Jacques Lacan: Television: A Challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment (1974/1990)

“Here, Lacan points to the dependence of thought and the unconscious on the structure of language. He pits this relation against the notion of thought as grounded in a physical anatomy imagined as an objectified and highly assumptive unity of functions, a singular body. Such a singularity of subjectivity is predicated upon the chain of intersubjectivity, the bonds of civilization, in which it aquires definition. Thus Lacan recognizes that the Aristotelian notion of the subject as object supplies, at the level of the intersubjective, the means of its radical decentering, viz. :

“the ex-sistence [a holding outside] of one more subject for the soul.”

In fact, the physical symptoms of the hysteric, the invasion and disturbance of the body by obsessive thoughts, how to behave, what to say, testifies to the fact that the only relation thought has to the soul-body is one of a differentiating projective ex-sistence.

Lacan argues that the concept of the subject as a composite of thought and soul emerges from efforts to conform thought to the world, for which, under the sway of the aforementioned social bonds, the soul is held responsible. Lacan argues that the object of this responsiblity which passes for “reality” is, in fact, a fantasy, a “grimace of the real”, which simply serves an instinctual purpose: the survivalist perpetuation of thought.”

First part of the book: Television
Translated by Denis Hollier, Rosalind Krauss, and Annette Michelson

Second part of the book: A Challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment
Translated by Jeffrey Mehlman
Edited by Joan Copjec

French edition by Les Editions du Seuil, 1974
Publisher W W Norton, New York/London, 1990
ISBN 0393024962
135 pages

Video of the televised lecture the book is based on
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See also special issue of October journal, 1987.