Thursday, May 1, 2014

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Pre-organic.
Bach is a traditional composer.
Adorno- the Newton of music.
Cartesian mathematical universe.


Kepler better than Newton.




Harmony mundi.
Modern silent.
Abstract universe.
Artificial harmony, numbers their secret meaning.
Origin, end of classicism, beginning of modernism.
Modernity started by the insight.
Romantism in music, Felix Mendelssohn.

Melody is not simply given.  Struggle to generate the melody.
Bethoven’s late senadas.

Schumann

 Schubert.

Is Adorno right to attack Tchaikovsky and Jean Sibelius?




Hegel wasn’t idealistic enough.




Variations on Phenomenology
Jameson
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The factory system, production is me as an individual.  Concrete interaction is regulated by the substance of the capital. 
‘The Persistence of Subjectivity’

Hegel.

Went too far in the end of art.  Art beyond representation. 
Capital.
Automatic.
Subject.
More profit.
What Hegel wasn’t able to think, subjectivity blindly automatisim.
When Marx describes the dance of capital.
The autonomy of self generation of value is a myth.
What Hegel describes here.
‘The Precapitalist Modes of Production’


Barry Hindess
Replace dialectic of the self reproduction of alienated society.
Communism is the liberation from dialectics.
Disgrace
J. M. Coetzee
Reconciliation, subject swallows everything not by overcoming but redoubling it.
My alienation from the substance.
To go beyond Hegel is to discover Hegel dimensions in what he couldn’t group.
Fred Jameson- Modern Democracy- doesn’t exclude the emergence of wealth.
As long as the rich man is as vulgar as everyone else.

Kant, 1724-1804

Hegel, 1770-1831

Soren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855

Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein 1889-1951
Martin Heidegger, 1889-1976
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre, 1905-1980
Johanna “Hannah” Arendt, 1906-1975

The richer we get the more we produce the rebel.
Universality, the place of excess.
Was Hegel a proto-fascist?
Soft fascist- neo-Hegelian
Individuality, state of the states, ABC of Hegelian Dialectics.
Universality assert itself against its….
In the form of rebel, etc.
Excess of the King.
Reduced to animality.
Legetimzes revolution.
Basic recognition denied, the rebel has the right.
The working class as no class stands for the universality of humanity.
Pass from Nature to Culture. 
Tristan and Isolde.
Let’s loose ourselves in the Catholic Church- fights sexuality- higher spirit vs. bio, one spirituality fighting another.  Goes beyond biological interests.  Lust.  Not procreative.  Purposeful activity.  Spiritualize it.  Ethical religious phenomenon forsake all pleasures so the capital makes more. 

Benjamin.

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