Overture II: The Ecological Cost of Nihilism, or a World Disenchanted
Legacy episode from "Dirty Musicology"
“I for one see the disasters wrought by man to be far more cruel than those that nature brings us. But however clever we may be at increasing our wretchedness through our institutions, we have till today not succeeded in perfecting ourselves so far that life in general has become a burden for us and we choose nothingness over being.”
Medium Article link:
https://jamesonfoster.medium.com/the-ecological-cost-of-nihilism-or-a-world-disenchanted-e22cfa33641d (https://jamesonfoster.medium.com/the-ecological-cost-of-nihilism-or-a-world-disenchanted-e22cfa33641d)
Topics covered in this episode:
Scientism
Nihilism
Land Ethic
Detachment
Music and Meaning
9 Feb 2024
The Ecological Cost of Nihilism, or a World Disenchanted
“I for one see the disasters wrought by man to be far more cruel than those that nature brings us. But however clever we may be at increasing our wretchedness through our institutions, we have till today not succeeded in perfecting ourselves so far that life in general has become a burden for us and we choose nothingness over being.”
Medium Article link:
https://jamesonfoster.medium.com/the-ecological-cost-of-nihilism-or-a-world-disenchanted-e22cfa33641d (https://jamesonfoster.medium.com/the-ecological-cost-of-nihilism-or-a-world-disenchanted-e22cfa33641d)
Topics covered in this episode:
Scientism
Nihilism
Land Ethic
Detachment
Music and Meaning
7 Jan 2024
A Word for Music - An Ecomusicologist's Manifesto
When Henry David Thoreau, in 1851, took to the lectern at the Concord Lyceum, he proclaimed to those in attendance, “I wish to speak a word for Nature.” With the conclusion of his speech, he declared, “in wildness is the preservation of the world.” And with his words, Thoreau marked a turning point in American thought away from superficial talk of nature derived from excessive Romanticism, and towards a more meaningful, sincere understanding of Earth’s Wilderness as it is.
In much of the same character, I would like to speak a word for Music, for in music is the preservation of the human spirit. I hope to make a case for a sincere academic confronting of music’s ineffable power to enrapture those who bear witness to it, with an interdisciplinary approach inviting subaltern, historically dismissed philosophical frameworks and epistemologies. In other words, I too, am lending my voice to a growing turn away from superficial talk of music as metaphor in our parlors, and towards a more sincere fronting of music as the ineffable, yet very real, force that it is in our world.
This is an Ecomusicologist's manifesto.
7 Jan 2024
Overture I: A Word for Music, or an Ecomusicologist's Manifesto
Legacy Episode from "Dirty Musicology"
When Henry David Thoreau, in 1851, took to the lectern at the Concord Lyceum, he proclaimed to those in attendance, “I wish to speak a word for Nature.” With the conclusion of his speech, he declared, “in wildness is the preservation of the world.” And with his words, Thoreau marked a turning point in American thought away from superficial talk of nature derived from excessive Romanticism, and towards a more meaningful, sincere understanding of Earth’s Wilderness as it is.
In much of the same character, I would like to speak a word for Music, for in music is the preservation of the human spirit. I hope to make a case for a sincere academic confronting of music’s ineffable power to enrapture those who bear witness to it, with an interdisciplinary approach inviting subaltern, historically dismissed philosophical frameworks and epistemologies. In other words, I too, am lending my voice to a growing turn away from superficial talk of music as metaphor in our parlors, and towards a more sincere fronting of music as the ineffable, yet very real, force that it is in our world.
This is an Ecomusicologist's manifesto.
7 Jan 2024
A Word for Music, or an Ecomusicologist's Manifesto
When Henry David Thoreau, in 1851, took to the lectern at the Concord Lyceum, he proclaimed to those in attendance, “I wish to speak a word for Nature.” With the conclusion of his speech, he declared, “in wildness is the preservation of the world.” And with his words, Thoreau marked a turning point in American thought away from superficial talk of nature derived from excessive Romanticism, and towards a more meaningful, sincere understanding of Earth’s Wilderness as it is.
In much of the same character, I would like to speak a word for Music, for in music is the preservation of the human spirit. I hope to make a case for a sincere academic confronting of music’s ineffable power to enrapture those who bear witness to it, with an interdisciplinary approach inviting subaltern, historically dismissed philosophical frameworks and epistemologies. In other words, I too, am lending my voice to a growing turn away from superficial talk of music as metaphor in our parlors, and towards a more sincere fronting of music as the ineffable, yet very real, force that it is in our world.
This is an Ecomusicologist's manifesto.
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