A.M.A.: Haraway

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

An unfinished reading/listening/worlding guide for new materialist newbies

[under construction (like everything in life)]

1. Musicologists who certainly can be included in the new materialist generation are:

The most explicit and as far as I know only case of fieldwork-new materialist-musicology is Milla Tiainen's "Corporeal Voices, Sexual Differentiations: New Materialist Perspectives on Music, Singing and Subjectivity" (2007). (Abstract here, if you don't have full-text access through your library contact me).

Looking back in time, we see that the famous 94 essays on mind/body and on lesbian musicology of Suzanne Cusick are groundbreaking new materialisms at full force.

Monday, May 23, 2011

Copyright and the facebook generation

The beauty of new materialist generative practice is that satisfies and intensifies life in a non-metaphorical manner. We don’t need to speak of and against the past and the other that we leave behind and aside. Positioning ourselves in the affirmative mode shows cartographies of alliances, the specific unborderedness and the radical openness of life. It not moving away but joining in with movement, the radical untogetherness and flux of experience. It is saying My reality is life.

Craftiness, creation, generation.

Haraway speaks of ‘critters’ rather than creatures, mapping a boundary that emphasizes a movement away from monotheist creation narratives. But a lovely capacitity of the new materialist mode is that any notion can be reclaimed, reterritorialized. In fact, that is precisely the generative mode; performing a qualitative shift by continuously expanding what any concept may stand for.