Stop Making Sense by Scott Wilson

Stop Making Sense by Scott Wilson

This book offers a new theory of music as a form of social bond analogous to language as it is understood according to the Lacanian orientation in psychoanalysis. It presents contemporary examples that look at how music has become both a powerful locus of discontent and a form of orientation.

'If the problematic distinction between music and noise has already been fought over in much recent work in the philosophy of music, with this book Scott Wilson enters the arena wearing the colours of psychoanalysisIn adopting this mode of attack and taking as a given the non-categorical distinction and imbricated relations between music, noise, and voice, Wilson's book helps us understand the bipolar psychic force of music, its ability to be both the tie that binds and that which tears us apart. Read it for this reason, and to appreciate his point more fully, follow his opening provocation and play the deliciously sadistic parlour game that, by his account, gave birth to his core idea.'- Greg Hainge, University of Queensland; author of Noise Matters: Towards an Ontology of Noise'Stop Making Sense launches a series of deep probes into the contemporary cultural condition. Music stands in for an order that is both imposed and resisted, and when music turns wrong, or is heard as something outside of musical order, its amusia makes it a privileged auscultatory device. This book has achieved the rare task of successfully bringing Lacan's thought to bear on the formal structures of music and its rejection, and represents an impressive incursion into musical disturbance.'- Paul Hegarty, University College Cork; author of Rumour and Radiation: Sound in Video Art

Scott Wilson is Professor of Media and Psychoanalysis at the London Graduate School, Kingston University, London. His books include 'The Order of Joy: Beyond the Cultural Politics of Enjoyment', 'Great Satan's Rage: American Negativity and Rap/Metal in the Age of Supercapitalism', and 'Melancology: Black Metal and Ecology'. He is the editor with Michael Dillon of the 'Journal for Cultural Research'.

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ISBN 13	9781782201984
ISBN 10	178220198X
Title	Stop Making Sense
Author	Scott Wilson
Series	The Psychoanalysis And Popular Culture Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Routledge
Year published	2015-04-13
Number of pages	272
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