| The Process That Is the World: Cage/Deleuze/Events/Performances Contributor(s): Panzner, Joe (Author) |
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ISBN: 162892571X ISBN-13: 9781628925715 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $148.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Genres & Styles - Electronic - Music | History & Criticism - General |
| Dewey: 780.92 |
| LCCN: 2015022931 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.10 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Process That Is the World grapples with John Cage not just as a composer, but as a philosopher advocating for an ontology of difference in keeping with the kind posited by Gilles Deleuze. Cage's philosophy is not simply a novel method for composition, but an extensive argument about the nature of reality itself, the construction of subjects within that reality, and the manner in which subjectivity and a self-creative world exist in productive tension with one another. Over the course of the study, these themes are developed in the realms of the ontology of a musical work, performance practices, ethics, and eventually a study of Cagean politics and the connection between aesthetic experience and the generation of new forms of collective becoming-together. The vision of Cage that emerges through this study is not simply that of the maverick composer or the "inventor of genius," but of a thinker and artist responding to insights about the world-as-process as it extends through the philosophical, artistic, and ethical registers: the world as potential for variance, reinvention, and permanent revolution. |