Short article on the ethical status of classical music performance in a time of war. Do musicians who publicly espouse a national identity have a duty to represent that nation in more or less consciously political senses? If not, is music free of all obligation to respond to political crises, when its cultural identity is implicated in war? Published online in Overland Literary Journal, March 29th, 2025: https://overland.org.au/2025/05/a-change-of-program-classical-music-performance-in-a-time-of-war/
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A change of program: classical music performance in a time of war
Posted in article, philosophy, tagged Classical music performance, Daniil Trifonov, Furtwangler, Matthias Goerne, Music and war, Russian music, Ukraine on May 29, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Technoscience and the Colonisation of Value
Posted in article, philosophy on May 18, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Heideggerian and post-Heideggerian concerns around the ontology of technology in its relations with human being, the capitalist subject, and political autonomy have long been a feature of recent continental thought. This brief take on the ‘post-human’ development of technobiological symbiosis between Dasein (or the humanly possible), the techno-capitalist state, and recent moves in the technologisation of state medical and security interventions, considers how the current state of play might be broadly construed in and as an ever-shifting ontology of ‘biotechnological prosthesis’.
whispered lineage 