This essay is excerpted from a longer version which will appear in Popular Music Studies, Hesmondhalgh and Negus, editors. (Forthcoming, Oxford/Arnold 2002). Earlier versions were presented at the UCLA...
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Narratives of progress and innovation have dominated the story of music and technology throughout the twentieth century.[1]Early versions of this essay were presented at the Humanities Institute...
Read MoreIn a classic essay from 1973, art historian Michael Fried focused on a quality he had discerned in French eighteenth-century painting—a quality he called “absorption” (Fried, “Absorption”...
Read MoreIt’s not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power… but of detaching the power of truth from the forms of hegemony, social, economic and...
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The setting is near Venice: After a night spent in fever and sleeplessness, I forced myself to take a long tramp the next day through the hilly...
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