Neoliberal hegemony manages chance. No longer a matter of the alienation Attali sought to remedy, it co-opts (standardizes) deviation rather than oppressing or repressing otherness. How, then, do you resist it? Is there any room for real deviation, and if so, how do you put it into practice?
What counts as deviation depends on what level of intensity hegemony has assigned you in the first place—what frequency range your life is tuned to sound. Producing—getting behind the glass, in front of ProTools—is thus a more useful metaphor for resistance than Attali’s composing. Production is also tends to be a more collective endeavor than composing, a collaboration of knob-tweakers, engineer, and performers. Resistance involves a collective project of rejecting the presets, digging into the advanced settings and modulating frequencies, tweaking amplitudes, and retuning the mix.
"Huh. I dunno. This recommendation seems facile. Particularly because it’s only recommending doing something within an interface like protools. You can stumble on some novel combos of presets etc. but everything is still within the interface. In the age of electronics… building your own and making them sensitive to their surroundings in unpredictable and barely controllable ways seems a lot more “deviant”. Interfaces matter and limit. Unless you’re actually hacking protools. And then you’re often still inside a meta-interface of MacOS or windows. Irony becomes a factor as well.
I agree w the emphasis on non-solo-human collaboration w tech, tho.
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