Theodor Adorno key concepts /

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Theodor Adorno key concepts /

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Opera and video technology and spectatorship /

Table of Contents: “…The fairy tale of bel canto : Walt Disney, Theodor Adorno, Kurt Weill play the gramophone / Gabriela Cruz -- Opera on Italian television : the first thirty years, 1954-1984 / Emanuele Senici -- Temps spatialisé : opera relays and the sense of temporality / Delphine Vincent -- Overtures on screen / Gaia Varon -- Playback problems when filming opera for the screen : two case studies / Jaume Radigal -- The opera director's voice : DVD extras and the question of authority / Áine Sheil -- A conversation with Pietro d'Agostino, video director at the Gran Teatre del Liceu -- Composing in new synaesthetic and interdisciplinary spaces : Libro de las estancias (Book of abodes) as a musical, architectural, and visual installation proposal.…”
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Opera and video technology and spectatorship /

Table of Contents: “…The fairy tale of bel canto : Walt Disney, Theodor Adorno, Kurt Weill play the gramophone / Gabriela Cruz -- Opera on Italian television : the first thirty years, 1954-1984 / Emanuele Senici -- Temps spatialisé : opera relays and the sense of temporality / Delphine Vincent -- Overtures on screen / Gaia Varon -- Playback problems when filming opera for the screen : two case studies / Jaume Radigal -- The opera director's voice : DVD extras and the question of authority / Áine Sheil -- A conversation with Pietro d'Agostino, video director at the Gran Teatre del Liceu -- Composing in new synaesthetic and interdisciplinary spaces : Libro de las estancias (Book of abodes) as a musical, architectural, and visual installation proposal.…”
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The new inquisitions heretic-hunting and the intellectual origins of modern totalitarianism / by Versluis, Arthur, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : heresy -- Heresy and the inquisition -- Czeslaw Milosz and the captive mind -- The archetypal inquisition -- Joseph de Maistre and the Inquisition -- Juan Donoso Cortés and the "sickness" of the liberal state -- Georges Sorel and Charles Maurras : the emergence of secular state corporatism -- Maurice Barrès and Charles Maurras : the nationalist substitute for Catholicism -- The secularization of heresiophobia -- Carl Schmitt, the Inquisition, and totalitarianism -- Carl Schmitt and early modern Western esotericism -- Carl Schmitt and gnosticism -- Communism and the heresy of religion -- Eric Voegelin, anti-gnosticism, and the totalitarian emphasis on order -- The rhetoric of anti-gnosticism -- Voegelinian inquisitors -- Norman Cohn and the pursuit of heretics -- The inner demons of Europe once again -- Theodor Adorno and the "occult" -- Another long, strange trip -- That old bugaboo, "gnosticism," yet again -- An epidemic of evil! …”
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Dialectics Unbound: On the Possibility of Total Writing / by Kennel, Maxwell

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The new inquisitions heretic-hunting and the intellectual origins of modern totalitarianism / by Versluis, Arthur, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : heresy -- Heresy and the inquisition -- Czeslaw Milosz and the captive mind -- The archetypal inquisition -- Joseph de Maistre and the Inquisition -- Juan Donoso Cortés and the "sickness" of the liberal state -- Georges Sorel and Charles Maurras : the emergence of secular state corporatism -- Maurice Barrès and Charles Maurras : the nationalist substitute for Catholicism -- The secularization of heresiophobia -- Carl Schmitt, the Inquisition, and totalitarianism -- Carl Schmitt and early modern Western esotericism -- Carl Schmitt and gnosticism -- Communism and the heresy of religion -- Eric Voegelin, anti-gnosticism, and the totalitarian emphasis on order -- The rhetoric of anti-gnosticism -- Voegelinian inquisitors -- Norman Cohn and the pursuit of heretics -- The inner demons of Europe once again -- Theodor Adorno and the "occult" -- Another long, strange trip -- That old bugaboo, "gnosticism," yet again -- An epidemic of evil! …”
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Dialectics Unbound: On the Possibility of Total Writing / by Kennel, Maxwell

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Vinyl Theory / by Di Leo, Jeffrey R.

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Vinyl Theory / by Di Leo, Jeffrey R.

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Freedom and the arts essays on music and literature / by Rosen, Charles, 1927-2012

Table of Contents: “…-- Frédéric Chopin, reactionary and revolutionary -- Robert Schumann, a vision of the future -- Long perspectives -- The New Grove's dictionary returns -- Western music : the view from California -- Theodore Adorno : criticism as cultural nostalgia -- Resuscitating opera : Alessandro Scarlatti -- Operatic paradoxes : the ridiculous and sublime -- Lost chords and the golden age of pianism -- Montaigne : philosophy as process -- La Fontaine : the ethical power of style -- The anatomy lesson : melancholy and the invention of boredom -- Mallarmé and the transfiguration of poetry -- Hoffmansthal and radical modernism -- The private obsessions of Wystan Auden -- Old wisdom and newfangled theory : two one-way streets to disaster.…”
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Freedom and the arts essays on music and literature / by Rosen, Charles, 1927-2012

Table of Contents: “…-- Frédéric Chopin, reactionary and revolutionary -- Robert Schumann, a vision of the future -- Long perspectives -- The New Grove's dictionary returns -- Western music : the view from California -- Theodore Adorno : criticism as cultural nostalgia -- Resuscitating opera : Alessandro Scarlatti -- Operatic paradoxes : the ridiculous and sublime -- Lost chords and the golden age of pianism -- Montaigne : philosophy as process -- La Fontaine : the ethical power of style -- The anatomy lesson : melancholy and the invention of boredom -- Mallarmé and the transfiguration of poetry -- Hoffmansthal and radical modernism -- The private obsessions of Wystan Auden -- Old wisdom and newfangled theory : two one-way streets to disaster.…”
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Crowds and democracy : the idea and image of the masses from revolution to fascism / by Jonsson, Stefan, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Introducing the Masses : Vienna, 15 July 1927 (Elias Canetti -- Alfred Vierkandt -- Hannah Arendt -- Karl Kraus -- Heimito von Doderer) -- Shooting Psychosis -- Not a Word About the Bastille -- Explaining the Crowd -- Representing Social Passions -- A Work of Madness -- Invincibles -- Mirror for Princes -- Workers on the Run -- Lashing -- Authority Versus Anarchy : Allegories of the Mass in Sociology and Literature (Georg Simmel -- Werner Sombart -- Fritz Lang -- Leopold von Wiese -- Wilhelm Vleugels -- Gerhard Colm -- Max Weber -- Theodor Geiger -- August Sander -- Hermann Broch -- Ernst Toller -- Rainer Maria Rilke) -- The Missing Chapter -- Georg Simmel's Masses -- In Metropolis -- The Architecture of Society -- Steak Tartare -- Delta Formations -- Alarm Bells of History -- Sleepwalkers -- I Am Mass -- Rilke in the Revolution -- The Revolving Nature of the Social : Primal Hordes and Crowds Without Qualities (Sigmund Freud -- Hans Kelsen -- Theodor Adorno -- Wilhelm Reich -- Siegfried Kracauer -- Bertolt Brecht -- Alfred Doblin -- Georg Grosz -- Robert Musil) -- Sigmund Freud Between Individual and Society -- Masses Inside -- In Love with Many -- Primal Hordes -- Masses and Myths -- The Destruction of the Person -- The Flaneur-Medium of Modernity -- Ornaments of the People -- Beyond the Bourgeoisie -- Shapeless Lives -- Organizing the Passions -- Collective Vision : A Matrix for New Art and Politics (Laszlo Moholy-Nagy -- Marianne Brandt -- Walter Benjamin -- Ernst Junger -- Edmund Schultz -- Willi Munzenberg -- Der Arbeiter-Fotograf -- Erwin Piscator -- Walther Gropius) -- Mass Psychosis and Photoplastics -- Johanna in the Revolution -- A Socialist Eye -- The Secret Code of the Nineteenth Century -- Speaking Commodities -- Deus ex Machina -- Democracy's Veil -- The Face of the Masses -- Learning to Hold a Camera -- The Gaze of the Masses -- Total Theater -- Coda: Remnants of Weimar.…”
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Crowds and democracy : the idea and image of the masses from revolution to fascism / by Jonsson, Stefan, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Introducing the Masses : Vienna, 15 July 1927 (Elias Canetti -- Alfred Vierkandt -- Hannah Arendt -- Karl Kraus -- Heimito von Doderer) -- Shooting Psychosis -- Not a Word About the Bastille -- Explaining the Crowd -- Representing Social Passions -- A Work of Madness -- Invincibles -- Mirror for Princes -- Workers on the Run -- Lashing -- Authority Versus Anarchy : Allegories of the Mass in Sociology and Literature (Georg Simmel -- Werner Sombart -- Fritz Lang -- Leopold von Wiese -- Wilhelm Vleugels -- Gerhard Colm -- Max Weber -- Theodor Geiger -- August Sander -- Hermann Broch -- Ernst Toller -- Rainer Maria Rilke) -- The Missing Chapter -- Georg Simmel's Masses -- In Metropolis -- The Architecture of Society -- Steak Tartare -- Delta Formations -- Alarm Bells of History -- Sleepwalkers -- I Am Mass -- Rilke in the Revolution -- The Revolving Nature of the Social : Primal Hordes and Crowds Without Qualities (Sigmund Freud -- Hans Kelsen -- Theodor Adorno -- Wilhelm Reich -- Siegfried Kracauer -- Bertolt Brecht -- Alfred Doblin -- Georg Grosz -- Robert Musil) -- Sigmund Freud Between Individual and Society -- Masses Inside -- In Love with Many -- Primal Hordes -- Masses and Myths -- The Destruction of the Person -- The Flaneur-Medium of Modernity -- Ornaments of the People -- Beyond the Bourgeoisie -- Shapeless Lives -- Organizing the Passions -- Collective Vision : A Matrix for New Art and Politics (Laszlo Moholy-Nagy -- Marianne Brandt -- Walter Benjamin -- Ernst Junger -- Edmund Schultz -- Willi Munzenberg -- Der Arbeiter-Fotograf -- Erwin Piscator -- Walther Gropius) -- Mass Psychosis and Photoplastics -- Johanna in the Revolution -- A Socialist Eye -- The Secret Code of the Nineteenth Century -- Speaking Commodities -- Deus ex Machina -- Democracy's Veil -- The Face of the Masses -- Learning to Hold a Camera -- The Gaze of the Masses -- Total Theater -- Coda: Remnants of Weimar.…”
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Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future / by Garrido Castellano, Carlos

Table of Contents: “…Art, Engagement, and Popular Imagination: Around the "Missed Encounter" between Theodor Adorno and C. L. R. James -- Jamesian Aesthetics -- Paying Attention: James as Engaged Critic of Culture -- Creative Forms, Transnational Linkages, and the Militant Avant-Garde -- Conclusion -- Part 3: Legacies -- 5. …”
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Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future / by Garrido Castellano, Carlos

Table of Contents: “…Art, Engagement, and Popular Imagination: Around the "Missed Encounter" between Theodor Adorno and C. L. R. James -- Jamesian Aesthetics -- Paying Attention: James as Engaged Critic of Culture -- Creative Forms, Transnational Linkages, and the Militant Avant-Garde -- Conclusion -- Part 3: Legacies -- 5. …”
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