Re: [microsound] microsound kiosk

[Christos Carras <ear@xxxxxxxxx>]

"can you elaborate more please especially of what you're saying on
Castoriades'??"

Hi

I'm thinking of a rather complex train of thought that Castoriades develops
in the last chapter of the book, centered on the concept of "magma" as a way
to escape "identitary logic" in one's attempt to understand the world,
society and change. IN one passage on Marx (p 478 in my French
edition -editions du Seuil, sorry don't have an english one...) he analyses
how it would be wrong to consider machines of a particular time to be
neutral.

In this context i wonder what common features, not at first sight apparent,
might taken as a whole, define a "control freak" society that strives to
mould the world in ways that are, i'm afraid not unrelated to power and
wealth. So genetic modification as the ultimate "god-game" and the creation
of the perfect physical model of an instrument and - why not -
fingerprinting me and storing this data in a data-base next time i visit the
US might fit into an pattern of social practice.

Computers (machines of our age) seem to me to be a central part of this
pattern and i wonder what the implications of this for sound created using
computers as an (definitive) interface, might be.

Hope i'm just paranoid...

Christos



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