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Author(s): David P. Rando (auth.)

ISBN(s): 9783319340142, 9783319340159, 331934014X, 3319340158

Edition: 1

File Details: PDF, 1.63 MB

Year: 2017

Language: English

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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3319816578
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3319816579
Author: David P. Rando

This book proposes that new music technologies attract unconscious desires for socialism and collectivity, enabling millions of people living under capitalism to dream of repressed social alternatives. Grounded in the philosophical writings of Ernst Bloch and Walter Benjamin, the book examines file sharing technologies, streaming services, and media players, as well as their historical antecedents, such as the player piano, cassette tape, radio and compact disc, alongside interpretations of fiction, memoir, and albums. Through the concept of wish images—the unconscious hopes and desires for social alternatives that gather around new technologies—the book identifies the repressed pre- and post-capitalist urges that attend our music technologies. While these desires typically remain unconscious and tend to pass away not only unmet but also unrecognized, Hope and Wish Image in Music Technology attempts to bring wishes for social alternatives to the surface at an auspicious moment of technological transition.

Table of contents:

Introduction: Audible Hope
Notes
Wish Images and Wishful Images: Benjamin and Bloch
Benjamin’s Wish Image
Bloch’s Wishful Images
Notes
The Music of Wish Images: Filesharing and Utopia
Apologies for Capitalism
Filesharing and Wish Image
Musical Experiences
BitTorrent Communities
Liberating Commodities and Their Owners
Wish and Dust
Conclusion
Notes
The Mixtape as Wishtape: Heterotopia, Translation, and Nostalgia
Individual and Collective Experience
Heterotopia
Translation and Nostalgia
Against the Harshest Anti-Utopia
Notes
The Artist and Technology: William Gaddis’s Agapē Agape, or the World’s Smallest Player Pian
Self-Contradiction
Gaddis, Benjamin, and Adorno
The Wish Image and Irony
The Wish Image and the Romantic/Capitalist Artist
Notes
“The Enemy Has Never Ceased to Be Victorious”: Anne Frank and Neutral Milk Hotel
Requiem, the Transmigration of Souls, and Historical Awakening
The Perverse in Historical Perception
The Carnival and Wishful Grotesquery
Radio Technology and the Wish Image of Time Travel
Death’s Utopia
“We Know Who Our Enemies Are”
Notes
Technology, Everyday Life, and Hope
Prehistory and Possibility
Everyday Wishfulness
Darkness of the Lived Moment and Non-Identity
Darkness of the Lived Moment and the Stay Awhile
Music
Technology
Fulfillment and Future
Notes
Conclusion: The Happy Appearance and the Wishful Tendency in Cultural Criticism
The Happy Appearance
The Wishful Tendency in Cultural Criticism