Re: [microsound] reading

[Ian Andrews <i.andrews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have read an essay many years ago that Serres wrote on the parasite
(translated into English).  Maybe it was part of the book, or maybe it
became part of this book. Anyway it was very interesting.  I'll have to dig
it out.

 thanks.

>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
>
>
>
>Kim Cascone wrote:
>
>> "Formalized Music" - Iannis Xenakis
>> [because FM is a good single source for philosophy, aesthetics, math, and
>> programming]
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