Re: [microsound] reading

[dbuchwald <dagmar.buchwald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm quite new to this list, so sorry if I mention something which might have
been discussed in lengths: Michel Serres' book The Parasite.  I'm not sure
whether it has been translated into English.  He's disccussing the figure of
the 'parasite' -- on the one hand in fables, on the other hand in terms of a
media theory, in terms of abstract relations: as something that doesn't fight
directly but profits from the relationship of a 'host' to his/her/its 'table'
or from the fight between two antagonists.  The parasite is always the third
in a relationship or in a 'channel'.  In that respect he also discusses the
parasite as a tiny 'noise', 'static' or 'mistake' within a transmission,
something tiny which gets big in its effects.  In this context he refers to
music and its parasites (which would be 'glitches' then, right?), to noise,
to static.  A very interesting book, also a book which might be used for
political issues: how to fight a system?  Not by rebelling against it but by
being its parasite, too tiny to be noticed directly but becoming large in
effects.  Virus, reprogramming, all that.

But I am sure the books has been discussed on the list considering the
parasites project and all that.

Dagmar

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