Is the funeral for the wrong corpse? Bret Schneider and Omair Hussain Hal Foster is a prominent critic and art historian who contributes regularly to Artforum, New Left Review, and The Nation. He is also an editor of October. In the fall of 2009, he sent out a questionnaire to 70 critics and curators, asking [...]
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An interview with Hal Foster
Book Review: Theodor W. Adorno, Philosophy of New Music.
Translated by Robert Hullot-Kentor. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. Bret Schneider THE NEW TRANSLATION AND REPUBLICATION of Theodor Adorno’s Philosophy of New Music is a further clarification of modernism, necessitated by the latest discontents with postmodernism’s vulgarization, which keeps it at a fictitious distance. Perhaps as his remedy for the most fragmented part of [...]
On drone music
Bret Schneider THE AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE OF DRONE MUSIC is not just aesthetically defined, but socially and historically located. The significance of this location is especially intriguing when concealed in a music legacy that aims exclusively at the pure presentation of sound, a music intent upon expelling all that is foreign to the aesthetic experience while [...]
