sense – Becoming Integral: Notes on Planetary Coexistence

Of Selves and Mirrors

If you want to know whether something or someone possesses a capacity for self-recognition or self-perception, a common test to use is the mirror test. Put people in front of a mirror, and see if they can recognize themselves in their reflections. Can you tell that your reflection is your image, that is, an imageContinue reading “Of Selves and Mirrors”

Five Theses for Emancipatory Music

1. Music is the art of the hope for resonance: a sense that does not make sense except because of its resounding in itself. Jean-Luc Nancy, Listening (Fordham UP, 2007), p. 67 2. No music has the slightest esthetic worth if it is not socially true, if only as a negation of untruth; no socialContinue reading “Five Theses for Emancipatory Music”