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WORKS RELATED TO AESTHETICS
The aesthetic revolution and its outcomes by Jacques Ranciere (2005)
00:55:57 mp3 / Mispronounced English, French, German / ISSN 00286060
KEYWORDS: Art + Politics, Aesthetic regime of art, that old dog Hegel, Lyotard, non-art, Melancholia.

The author as receiver by Kaja Silverman (2001)
00:46:29 mp3 / Mispronounced French, messed up English too / ISBN 026275245
KEYWORDS: Art, Jean Luc Godard, film, video, installation, love, passivity as activity, strength as sensitivity like an antenna, against Brecht, for a promise of the future through love and ruthless sensitivity of history.

Notes on composing in film by Hollis Frampton (1976)
00:25:26 mp3 / Mispronounced French, English / October 1976
KEYWORDS: Art, film, language as structuration, T.S. Eliot, Samuel Beckett, music as ethic of film composing, syntax outside meaning.

Obsolescence by Martha Rosler (2002)
00:16:38 mp3 / Mispronounced English / ISBN 0262752506
KEYWORDS: Art, technology, Karl Marx, mannequins, garage sales, the unbearable burden of the perpetually new, buyer’s remorse.

The birth of art by Maurice Blanchot (1971)
00:27:05 mp3 / Mangled French / ISBN 0804727597
KEYWORDS: Art, history of art, caves, Lascaux, Georges Bataille, art as wonder, body as signature, myth of origins, fear of death, exigency of life.

Happiness in slavery by Jean Paulhan (1954)
00:30:30 mp3 / Mispronounced French / ISBN 0345301110
KEYWORDS: History, Philosophy, Barbados, slave rebellion, Story of O, Pauline Reage, freedom, love letter, scared of freedom, freedom as necessity, decency, absolute decency.

The thing by Martin Heidegger (1950)
00:51:17 mp3 / Mispronounced German, French / ISBN 0060937289
KEYWORDS: Art, integrity of the thing, thinging, thingly, firmness, duration, time, integrity, self as thing, Greek urns, sculpture as thing and nothing, container, void.

The rest is silent by Chris Marker (1995)
00:14:14 mp3 / Mispronounced Russian, French, Brazilian, German, Japanese, Italian, probably English too / ISBN 1881390101
KEYWORDS: History of silent film, no such thing as silent film, shoot the piano player, fixing emotions, Benshi, love of Clara Bow, large faces, color as sex.

The ordeals of fire and water by Michael Maar (2000)
00:18:46 mp3 / Mispronounced French / ISSN 0028 6060
KEYWORDS: Art, Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann, reading, reading something twice, unknowingness.

The ecstasy of philistinism by Malcolm Bull (1996)
01:02:39 mp3 / Mispronounced English, German, French / ISSN 00286060
KEYWORDS: Art, History of negation, Atheism, Nihilism, Marxism, Philistinism, Theodor Adorno, Friedrich Nietzsche, the siren’s song, the future of art as non-art.

The aesthetics of silence by Susan Sontag (1969)
01:14:56 mp3 / Mispronounced French, German / ISBN 0312420218
KEYWORDS: Art, silence as aesthetic form of spirituality, Samuel Beckett, Robbe-Grillet, sound is the chatter of immobility, what is at stake is a new form of void from which the new is possible.