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Zusatztext This book creates an utterly convincing link between experimental music and radical philosophy; or more broadly, between the boundaries of thought and the limits of artistic practice. The parallels between Cage and Deleuze that Panzner finds are uncanny: they will have you reading one through the eyes and ears of the other until you hear their work as the kind of collective assemblage both men loved. Informationen zum Autor Joe Panzner is a lecturer in Music History at the Ohio State University and Capital University, USA. Vorwort Presents John Cage as a musician and philosopher advocating for an ontology of difference – a musical, philosophical, and ethical argument about the place of art within a world of continual differentiation and becoming. Zusammenfassung The Process That Is the World grapples with John Cage not just as a composer, but as a philosopher advocating for an ontology of difference in keeping with the kind posited by Gilles Deleuze. Cage’s philosophy is not simply a novel method for composition, but an extensive argument about the nature of reality itself, the construction of subjects within that reality, and the manner in which subjectivity and a self-creative world exist in productive tension with one another. Over the course of the study, these themes are developed in the realms of the ontology of a musical work, performance practices, ethics, and eventually a study of Cagean politics and the connection between aesthetic experience and the generation of new forms of collective becoming-together. The vision of Cage that emerges through this study is not simply that of the maverick composer or the “inventor of genius,” but of a thinker and artist responding to insights about the world-as-process as it extends through the philosophical, artistic, and ethical registers: the world as potential for variance, reinvention, and permanent revolution. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Chapter One: “The Process That Is The World” (Introduction) Chapter Two: “It Is Not, It Becomes” (Works) Chapter Three: “A Mistake Is Beside the Point” (Ethics) Chapter Four: “Happy New Ears!” (Encounters) Chapter Five: “Through Many a Perilous Situation” (Performances) Chapter Six: “To Inhabit the World” (Politics) Bibliography Index...
