Programs of the Improbable, Short Circuits of the Unheard-of

Stiegler, Bernard; Hughes, Robert

doi:10.1353/dia.2014.0004

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“…It is the condition of possibility of a space and a time of jazz, its horizon'. 20 Similarly, with computational media the conditions of musicmaking change. When music is stored as a binary file, executed through the central processing unit of the computer or the phone (CPU), there is no technical reason to adhere to the fixed linearity of the sound recording.…”

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Ergodynamics and a Semiotics of Instrumental Composition

Magnusson¹

2018

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This article examines the techno-philosophical aspects of how we create and understand musical systems in twenty-first century computational media. Arguing that processor-based media have exploded the compositional language of new music, the article proposes a set of concepts that might help us navigate this new space of instrumental possibilities. The term ‘ergodynamics’ – and related concepts – is proposed as a useful concept when describing the phenomenological, historical and aesthetic aspects of musical instruments, as well as a lens for looking at new compositional practices that can be defined as being either ‘idiomatic’ or ‘supra-instrumental’. The article explores the difference in composing for acoustic, electronic and digital instruments, and suggests that new musical practice can be characterised by a move from composing work to inventing systems.

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Ergodynamics and a Semiotics of Instrumental Composition

Magnusson¹

2018

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“…Human existence is characterised by the relationships formed by the passing on of externalised and impersonal knowledges, and how they are transformed in the process. (Stiegler, 2014c(Stiegler, , p.99, 2015b. Transmission of experience demands a dialogical and never exact repetition as it cannot be reduced to a neutral substratum.…”

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From resistance to invention in the politics of the impossible: Bernard Stiegler’s political reading of Maurice Blanchot

Turner

2018

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Politicising the Epokhé: Bernard Stiegler and the Politics of Epochal Suspension

Turner

2019

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For Husserl, the phenomenological epoché is primarily methodological, allowing access to the structures of transcendental consciousness by way of suspending worldly influence. This chapter will demonstrate how this methodological principle is rethought as political in the work of Bernard Stiegler. For Stiegler the epokhé is both the suspension of existing social systems, and a moment of critical redoubling, where the source of disruption is integrated into a new 'epoch'. In particular it will be shown how Stiegler develops this double understanding of the epokhé through his reading of retentionality as found in the lectures On the Consciousness of Internal Time to develop an understanding of the epochal framing of temporality by technics. By drawing connections between this version of retentionality and the pharmacological character of technics, as simultaneously poisonous and curative, the political stakes of the epokhé lie in the need to fight the poisonous aspects of epochal suspension.

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Programs of the Improbable, Short Circuits of the Unheard-of

Cited by 5 publications

References 14 publications

Ergodynamics and a Semiotics of Instrumental Composition

Ergodynamics and a Semiotics of Instrumental Composition

From resistance to invention in the politics of the impossible: Bernard Stiegler’s political reading of Maurice Blanchot

Politicising the Epokhé: Bernard Stiegler and the Politics of Epochal Suspension

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