Cologne 17-Nov-2009
The Germans had a close brush with freedom in the wake of the French
Revolution, but they soon recovered.
Im Sog der Französischen Revolution sind die Deutschen gerade noch an
der Freiheit vorbeigeschrammt.
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Cologne 26-Nov-2009
Etwas Neues, Knappes:
Eine Anmerkung zur Wertform in H.D. Kittsteiner
"Mit Marx für Heidegger - Mit Heidegger für Marx" (Fink, München 2004)
http://www.arte-fact.org/ktstmxhd.html
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Cologne 26-Nov-2009
"Hence, if the economic form, exchange, posits the equality of subjects
in all directions, then the content, the material, individual as well as
factual, that drives to exchange is _freedom_. Equality and freedom are
thus not only respected in exchange based on exchange-values, but
exchange of exchange-values is also the productive, real basis of all
_equality_ and _freedom_. As pure ideas they are only idealized
expressions of the same; as developed in juridical, political, social
relations they are only this basis with another exponent."
"Wenn also die ökonomische Form, der Austausch, nach allen Seiten hin
die Gleichheit der Subjekte setzt, so der Inhalt, der Stoff,
individueller sowohl wie sachlicher, der zum Austausch treibt, die
_Freiheit_. Gleichheit und Freiheit sind also nicht nur respektiert im
Austausch, der auf Tauschwerten beruht, sondern der Austrausch von
Tauschwerten ist die produktive, reale Basis aller _Gleichheit_ und
_Freiheit_. Als reine Ideen sind sie bloß idealisierte Ausdrücke
desselben; als entwickelt in juristischen, politischen, sozialen
Beziehungen sind sie nur diese Basis in einer andren Potenz."
Karl Marx _Grundrisse der Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie_ Dietz, Berlin
1974 S. 156.
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Cologne 07-Dec-2009
Jetzt erweitert:
Eine weitere Anmerkung zum Heideggerschen Gestell in H.D. Kittsteiner
"Mit Marx für Heidegger - Mit Heidegger für Marx" (Fink, München 2004)
http://www.arte-fact.org/ktstmxhd.html#2.0.
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Cologne 07-Dec-2009
Here's something new:
Postscript 3: On time in (a quantized) special relativity theory (Joy
Christian)
http://www.arte-fact.org/dgtlon_e.html#ps3
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Jetzt erweitert:
Eine weitere Anmerkung zum Heideggerschen Gestell in H.D. Kittsteiner
"Mit Marx für Heidegger - Mit Heidegger für Marx" (Fink, München 2004) http://www.arte-fact.org/ktstmxhd.html#2.0.
Hi Michael, and thanks for the article: any chance of an English translation? This is a subject close to my (he)art.
'gards
michael
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Cologne 12-Dec-2009
Kunst und Philosophie: was sind das anders als rare, helle Punkte, die
aufscheinen, und woran der Geist Freude hat?
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Cologne 28-Dec-2009
In case you're at a loose end:
'Anglophone Justice Theory, the Gainful Game and the Political Power
Play'
http://www.arte-fact.org/untpltcl/angljstc.html
Recent Anglophone theories of justice display a conspicuous blindness to
considerations of commutative justice in favour of distributive social
justice.
"One thing I can tell you is you got to be free."
John Lennon, Come
Together
Michael
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Cologne 20-Jan-2010
"Penningens betydelse för våra liv ... är vad som fått filosoferna H.D.
Kittsteiner, Kostas Axelos och Michael Eldred att vända sig till de två
kontroversiella tänkarna Martin Heidegger och Karl Marx, för att
begreppsliggöra vår samtid och den värld som reducerar allting till mått
och värden. I föreliggande nummer av Subaltern presenterar vi dessa
tänkares analyser av sambandet Marx och Heidegger..."
http://tidskrift.nu/artikel.php?Id=6333
"Money's significance for our lives ... is what has brought the
philosophers H.D. Kittsteiner, Kostas Axelos and Michael Eldred to turn
their attention to the two controversial thinkers Martin Heidegger and
Karl Marx, in order to help us grasp our time and a world that reduces
everything to measurement and value. In this issue of Subaltern we
present these thinkers' analyses of the Marx/Heidegger connection,..."
(Thanks to JT for translation)
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Cologne 22-Jan-2010
SUBALTERN Tidskrift för subversiv kultur #3:2009
"Penningens betydelse för våra liv ... är vad som fått filosoferna H.D.
Kittsteiner, Kostas Axelos och Michael Eldred att vända sig till de två
kontroversiella tänkarna Martin Heidegger och Karl Marx, för att
begreppsliggöra vår samtid och den värld som reducerar allting till mått
och värden. I föreliggande nummer av Subaltern presenterar vi dessa
tänkares analyser av sambandet Marx och Heidegger..."
http://www.tidskrift.nu/artikel.php?Id=6333
"Money's significance for our lives ... is what has brought the
philosophers H.D. Kittsteiner, Kostas Axelos and Michael Eldred to turn
their attention to the two controversial thinkers, Martin Heidegger and
Karl Marx, in order to help us grasp our time and a world that reduces
everything to measurement and value. In this issue of Subaltern we
present these thinkers' analyses of the Marx/Heidegger connection,..."
(Thanks to JT for translation)
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Cologne 16-Feb-2010
My 1984 book (Kurajse, Copenhagen), with a SHORT NEW Preface, is now
available in digitized form:
Critique of Competitive Freedom and the Bourgeois-Democratic State:
Outline of a Form-Analytic Extension of Marx’s Uncompleted System
Michael Eldred
http://www.arte-fact.org/ccfbdspf.html
With an Appendix by Michael Eldred,
Marnie Hanlon, Lucia Kleiber and Mike Roth
'A Value-Form Analytic Reconstruction of _Capital_'
Sydney-Konstanz Project
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Cologne 09-Mar-2010
The emended, revised and extended Version 3.0 March 2010 is out:
"Capital and Technology: Marx and Heidegger"
Michael Eldred
http://www.arte-fact.org/capiteen.html
"The coupling of Marx’s thinking with certain state powers, and
especially its situation in the political domain with all its
bone-headed prejudices that blot out thoughtfulness, have made access to
a thought-ful dialogue with him infinitely more difficult and also put
coarse distortions and simplifications into circulation. ... It will
take some effort to ease Marx out of the automatic, foregone
entanglement with totalitarian social systems and mere leftist political
convictions."
"For Heidegger 'the essence of materialism is concealed in the essence
of technology' and, for the thinking of the essence of technology, the
economic dimension is irrelevant, perhaps too 'ontic'. Not only is the
economic dimension allegedly irrelevant, it is moreover invisible as
phenomenality for the determination of the essence of technology in
Heidegger’s thinking, indeed so much so, that Heidegger does not even
see any reason to confront economic issues or to explicitly demarcate a
distance from them."
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Cologne 29-Mar-2010
Game and Set-up
The Americans believe in the pursuit of happiness.
The Germans believe in the setting-up of happiness.
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Question from Hermann Hesse:
Has analytic philosophy cut the world down to the size of a glass-bead
game in predicate calculus?
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The Americans believe in the pursuit of happiness.
The Germans believe in the setting-up of happiness.
Oh, and the English don't believe in happiness at all!
Thanks for this and the Hesse quote Michael. I do agree with Nietzsche that one can not pursue happiness, it being an epiphenomenon, a side result of the increase in power: if one wants to be happier or just happy then one must find a way to increase one's power, and that can involve a certain degree of pain as well as pleasure. On a much softer note, if one wants to look good and lose weight (etc), one should not so much pursue weight-loss diets (for example) but rather engage in increasing overall health/fitness, then the increased health will lead anyway to a better weight/look.
Happy pesach (passover).
regards (and take care to shelter yourself...)
michael
ps: sorry I haven't been in touch re music -- I've had a mass of work, a bunch of depression and I've pursued my opera (now three in a cycle). Once out of the trough I'll get back to you on musical stuff (and yes, we seem to have gone in approximately similar paths musically and intellectually).
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Cologne 06-Apr-2010
The emended, revised Version 3.0 April 2010 is out:
"Worldsharing and Encounter: Heidegger's ontology and Lévinas' ethics"
Michael Eldred
http://www.arte-fact.org/wrldshrg.html
Available also in PDF.
"You-and-I is a ‘we’ that does not exist or ek-sist, standing out in the
open, but
hovers ever so slightly in a resonant inkling. Its fuzziness makes it
suspect for ‘logical’ thinking. Therefore, today’s philosophy almost
entirely ignores the phenomenon of encounter and passes it on to
religion."
"If Lévinas’ philosophy in very large part can be characterized as a
movement of negation against the claim, ‘Ontology is fundamental’, in
order to assert the unconditional, i.e. absolute, primacy of ethics (of
the other) over ontology, an adequate reply to Lévinas must consist in
showing that ontology is indeed fundamental."
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Cologne 26-Apr-2010
Here's something to quiver the foundations of mathematics and physics:
'Digital Being, the Real Continuum, the Rational and the Irrational' Ver
1.1
http://www.arte-fact.org/untpltcl/dgtlcntm.html
Also in PDF.
Cheers,
Michael
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Here's something to quiver the foundations of mathematics and physics:
'Digital Being, the Real Continuum, the Rational and the Irrational' Ver
1.1 http://www.arte-fact.org/untpltcl/dgtlcntm.html Also in PDF.
Cheers,
Michael
Thanks again Michael for your inspiring contribution, a subject that is dear to me, this business of the nature of the infinitesimally small being that is neither nothing nor (exactly) something, the dx and dy in the dy/dx of the differential calculus and thus the definition of mathematical continuity. I haven't yet read the whole of your article but it is also interesting that not only the more obvious irrationals (like the square root of two, pi, e, etc) but also the apparent rationals like the real (not rational) number two seen as the limit of the power series of rationals: 1 + 0.5 + 0.25 + 0.125 + 0.0625 + 0.03125 + ... Thus we can have the natural (counting) number 2, the rational number 2 (2/1, 4/2, 6/3 etc) and the real number 2 (e.g., as defined by the limit of the series above); and they're all designated by just '2'...
Cologne 03-Jul-2010
"Die Frage des continuum ist in der heutigen Mathematik wieder
aufgerollt. Man kommt auf aristotelische Gedanken zurück, sofern man
verstehen lernt, daß das continuum nicht analytisch auflösbar ist,
sondern daß man dahin kommen muß, es als etwas Vorgegebenes zu
verstehen, vor der Frage nach einer analytischen Durchdringung. Die
Arbeit in dieser Richtung hat der Mathematiker Hermann Weyl geleistet
und sie vor allem für die Grundprobleme der mathematischen Physik
fruchtbar gemacht. Auf dieses Verständnis des continuum kam er im
Zusammenhang mit der Relativitätstheorie der gegenwärtigen Physik, für
die gegenüber der Ferngeometrie, wie sie sich im Ansatz der modernen
Physik bei Newton ergab, der Feldbegriff maßgeblich ist. Das physische
Sein ist bestimmt durch das Feld. Aus diesem Entwicklungsgang kann man
erhoffen, daß die Physiker mit der Zeit vielleicht dazu kommen, / mit
Hilfe der Philosophie zu verstehen, was Aristoteles unter Bewegung
verstanden hat, und daß sie die alten Vorurteile aufgeben und nicht mehr
meinen, der aristotelische Bewegungsbegriff sei primitiv und man müsse
die Bewegung lediglich durch die Geschwindigkeit definieren, die ja ein
Charakter der Bewegung ist. Vielleicht wird man mit der Zeit auch den
aristotelischen Begriff der Bewegung radikaler würdigen. Ich gebe diesen
Hinweis, um anzudeuten, wie sehr Aristoteles, frei von aller
vorschnellen Theorie, zu Tatbeständen gekommen ist, die heute auf
umgekehrtem Wege die naturwissenschaftliche Geometrie anstrebt." M.
Heidegger Sophistes GA19:117f.)
“The question regarding the continuum is again being unfolded in today’s
mathematics. One comes back to Aristotelean thoughts insofar as one
learns to understand that the continuum cannot be resolved analytically,
but that one must get to the point of understanding it as something
pregiven, prior to the question concerning an analytical penetration.
The work in this direction has been performed by the mathematician
Hermann Weyl (Raum - Zeit - Materie: Vorlesungen über allgemeine
Relativitätstheorie Berlin 1918) and has been made fruitful for the
foundational problems of mathematical physics. He came to this
understanding of the continuum in connection with the relativity theory
of present-day physics for which, vis-à-vis the telegeometry resulting
from the Newtonian approach in modern physics, the concept of field is
definitive. Physical being is defined by the field. From this course of
development one can hope that, in the course of time, physicists will
perhaps come to understand, with the help of philosophy, what Aristotle
understood by movement, and that they give up the old prejudices and no
longer hold the opinion that the Aristotelean concept of movement was
primitive and that movement had to be defined only by velocity which,
indeed, is a characteristic of movement. Perhaps, in the course of time,
one will also come to appraise more radically the Aristotelean concept
of movement. I make this remark in order to indicate just how much
Aristotle, free from all over-hasty theory, has come to findings which
today natural-scientific geometry is striving for on a path in the
opposite direction.â€
Heidegger made this remark in winter semester 1924/25, and his hope
that, in the course of time, modern physics would learn to appraise
Aristotle’s concept of movement “more radically†remains unfulfilled to
the present day.
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>What is the nature of Penrose's wave-function collapse/reduction
operator, R, that compels the indeterminacy of superposition of many, or
even uncountably infinite, potential phase-states through a
probabilistic quantum leap into unique definiteness? Penrose writes, for
instance, "discrete states of an atom, for example are those with
definite energy, momentum, and total angular momentum. A general state
which 'spreads' is a superposition of such discrete states. It is the
action of R, at some stage, that requires the atom actually to 'be' in
one of these discrete states". (The Emperor's New Mind, 1989, 1999 p.
521) Here, R is sounding awfully like the logos that gathers wavering
indeterminacy into the well-defined definiteness of being such that
something becomes visible _as_ such to the human mind. The difference is
that the physicist, Penrose, imagines some kind of real, 'material'
process in R, thus overlooking that even 'matter' is an idea. Penrose's
proposed 'one-graviton' criterion for the onset of wave-function
collapse (pp. 475ff) suggests that the world falls into definite place
under the effects of gravity, whereas the gathering of the logos is
simply the eventuation through which world shapes up _as_ world. Is the
"anthropic principle" Penrose adduces, "which asserts that the nature of
the universe that we find ourselves in is strongly constrained by the
requirement that sentient beings like ourselves must actually be present
to observe it" (p. 524; cf. pp. 560ff), merely the latest 'scientific'
edition of the famous Parmenidean belonging-together of being and
awareness (Frag. 3)? And when Penrose adduces "insight" (p. 541ff and
passim) in order to show the "non-verbality of thought" (p. 548ff) that
sees more than any algorithm could ever achieve computationally, does
this not amount, unbeknown to him, to a latter-day resuscitation of
Aristotelean _nous_?<
More: http://www.arte-fact.org/dgtlon_e.html#7.1.
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Cologne 25-Jul-2010
"Die Persönlichkeit ist verändert, man kann fast sagen, unter der Haut
gegen eine weniger eigentümliche umgetauscht: an die Stelle des Ich ist
der erste, deutlich als unbehaglich und eine Verminderung empfundene,
aber doch unwiderstehliche Ansatz eines Wir getreten." (Robert Musil Der
Mann ohne Eigenschaften II Tl. 3 Kap. 8)
"The personality has changed; one can almost say, subcutaneously swapped
for a less singular personality: in place of I, the first germ of a We
has stepped, clearly felt as uncomfortable and as a diminishment, but
nevertheless irresistible."
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An attempt to gain clarity
about 'our values' that everybody appeals to and deploys in
political controversies. A step beyond is also taken to
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John Searle's paper on _The Phenomenological Illusion_ makes very
interesting reading as an unvarnished presentation of core analytic
convictions. The battle between materialism and idealism started
with the birth of philosophy and continues in many different guises
to the present day. Both Plato and Aristotle already engage with the
materialists. Hegel remarks dryly that "matter" is an idea.
Materialism is nevertheless highly attractive because it appeals to
apparently incontrovertible factual 'truths' of sensuous certainty
-- seeing is believing.
Searle writes e.g., "More precisely: Given that any sort of
Cartesianism or other form of metaphysical dualism is out of the
question, how do we give an account of ourselves as conscious,
intentionalistic, rational, speech-act performing, ethical,
free-will possessing, political and social animals in a world that
consists entirely of mindless,
meaningless brute physical particles."
and
"Literary and social facts are dependent on the facts of physics in
a way that the facts of physics are not dependent on literature or
society. Take away all the literature and all the social
institutions, and you still have physics. Take away all the physical
particles, and you lose literature, society and everything else."
This latter is intended to be a common-sense, knock-down argument
that appeals to what "we" factually incontrovertibly "know" through
science and its scientific method. Because these scientific facts
are taken as the indubitable basic facts, analytic philosophy's work
only starts once these "basic facts" are accepted as true. The first
quote shows that Searle is a scientific materialist for whom matter
is first and foremost "physical particles." But, to recall Hegel,
"physical particles" is an idea. The truth of physical particles as
a basic fact is derived from science's _effectiveness_, which Searle avers. In
modern science, effectiveness has become the criterion for truth. If
it works, it's true. And conversely, if it's true, it must produce
an effect, a useful one.
Although Searle makes an assertion in the second quote above that is
supposed to be patently true, it is patently false, to wit: without
the "social facts" of universities and traditions of learning going
back to the ancient Greeks. there would be neither physical
particles nor force fields, both of which are highly special
theoretical concepts, i.e. ideas. A particle of dust on my desk is
not a physical particle in the sense of modern physics. Materialism
invariably imagines that it has direct access to matter (here:
physical particles) without the mediation of any idea. Idealism in
any guise is dismissed, which is all too apparent already in the way
analytic philosophy caricatures Plato's 'theory of ideas' as a
quaint, childish theory that no adult today could take seriously.
Searle, too, claims that any talk of being is senseless.
The ideas are how beings show themselves AS beings, i.e. how an
historical world shapes up, and this AS is always interposed between
human understanding and the world, and in truth, so much so, that
there is no human understanding nor world prior to the AS, i.e. the
mind's eye only eyes being AS a shaping up of world, which is an
historical (temporal) eventuation. Heidegger uses the word Ereignis
(variously rendered as event, eventuation, propriation, enowning...)
The word. Ereignis is etymologically related to German Eraeugnis,
from Auge = eye. Ereignis eventuates when Dasein eyes being AS a
world, and being gives itself AS a world to the mind's eye. This is
no more fanciful and anti-common-sense than the idea of a physical
particle (today; a complex-imaginary superposition of quantum
wave-functions). Today's common-sense goes only with what science
offers as truth, despite its proclivity to believe only what one
sees with one's own sensuous eyes. But what does the somatic eye
see? It cannot see something, because 'something' itself is already
an idea that can be seen only by the mind's eye.
So, despite analytic-materialist imaginings, there is literally
nothing to say of 'material beings' apart from or prior to human
understanding of them. I.e. there is no such thing as objective
truth. (Nor is there any such thing as subjective truth. Rather:
subject and object _belong together_ in the world.)
Re social ontology Searle writes:
"How do we get from, for example, the brute fact that this is a
sheet of paper
with ink marks to the institutional fact that this is a twenty
dollar bill?" Searle poses this question within his
analytic-materialist (realist, physicalist or whatever) framework,
thus already prejudicing the question. He proposes to answer it
through linguistic, logical analysis, as if truth resided in
sentences. There is a lot to say about what a twenty dollar bill
_is_ under the heading of the social ontology of value, esteem,
recognition, estimation, _timae_. That other phenomenologist, Hegel,
and his pupil, Marx, have decisive ontological insights into
monetary value, as does Aristotle. Cf.
e.g.
'Exchange, Value, Justice
- Aristotle, Adam Smith, Karl
Marx' http://www.arte-fact.org/untpltcl/exchvljs.html
'Exchange
as the core phenomenon of social intercourse: interchange'
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"Sogar im Denken, wo alles doch logisch und sachlich zusammenhängt,
[...] anerkennt man die überlegene Überzeugung eines anderen gewöhnlich
bloß dann vorbehaltlos, wenn man sich ihm auch auf irgendeine andere
Weise unterwirft, sei es als einem Vorbild und Führer, sei es als einem
Freund oder einem Lehrer. Ohne ein solches Gefühl, das nicht zur Sache
gehört, macht man sich fremde Meinung aber stets nur mit dem
stillschweigenden Einspruch zu eigen, daß sie bei einem selbst noch
besser aufgehoben sei als bei ihrem Urheber;" (Robert Musil Der Mann
ohne Eigenschaften II Tl. 3 Kap. 48)
"Even in thinking, where everything is connected logically and
matter-of-factly, [...] one acknowledges unreservedly the superior
conviction of someone else usually only when one subjects oneself to him
also in some other way, whether it be as a model and leader, whether it
be as a friend or teacher. Without such a feeling, that does not belong
to the matter at hand, one only adopts an alien opinion with the tacit
caveat that it is better preserved with oneself than with its author;"
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Mathematics is a sprint for the mind. Hence the brilliance of young
mathematicians.
Philosophy is a marathon for the mind. Hence the glow of old philosophers.
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Cologne 10-Sep-2010
Here are two new shards for the critically-mathematically inclined, one
on quantum bits:
http://www.arte-fact.org/dgtlon_e.html#7.3.4
and the other on complex-imaginary time
http://www.arte-fact.org/dgtlon_e.html#7.3.1
Cheers,
Michael
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Now available in PDF. Heidegger's reading of the essence of Technik is
beset with a fatal ambiguity between technology and technique
which can be traced back further to an ambiguity lodged in the
heart of Aristotle's metaphysical concept of power.
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Cologne 30-Sep-2010
Zwei Beispiele der Eigentümlichkeit deutscher politischer Begriffe:
Der Sozialstaat -- das ist der Staat, der die Gesellschaft geschluckt
hat. (Bismarcks gescichtsstrategischer Sieg)
Die soziale Kälte -- das ist, wo der Staat zur unerläßlichen Wärmequelle
der Gesellschaft geworden ist, und die Gesellschaft selbst keine Wärme
mehr hat. Die Abkühlung von Gesellschaft auf diese Temperatur braucht
Jahrhunderte, damit ein Volk den freiwilligen Freiheitsverzicht lernt.
Two examples of the peculiarity of German political vocabulary:
Social (welfare) state -- that is the state that has swallowed society.
(Bismarck's historico-strategic victory)
Social cold -- that is where the state has become the indispensable
source of warmth, and society itself no longer has any warmth. The
cooling of society down to this temperature requires centuries for a
people to learn voluntary renunciation of freedom.
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II.2 Phenomenology of Western harmonic-tonal music (Georgiades)
II.2.1 Rhythm in tonal music
II.2.2 Harmony in tonal music
II.2.3 Logically notated music
II.2.4 Words set to harmonic music
II.2.5 The dissolution of arithmetic harmony in the mathematical continuum
II.2.6 Making way to harmonic-tonal music
II.3 New Music is the Other Music (Cage)
II.3.1 The absolute zero of musical time-space
II.3.2 Spatiality of Cagean musical happening
II.3.3 Historical recasting of musics urfugue
II.4 Music as critique and subversion
II.4.1 Electronic music as social critique?
II.4.2 An attunement to being through electronic music?
II.4.3 Audible ecosystemics (Di Scipio)
II.4.4 A musical subversion of harmonically logical time (Feldman)
II.4.5 The composer makes plans ... Music laughs (Feldman)
III. Literature
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