Did Music Cause the End of the World?
This essay seeks to clarify the relationship between music and environmental violence. After a reflection on the distortions and insights that different frames of reference produce, it places music within an expansive environmental register that encompasses the entirety of human history, up to and i...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:transposition_5192 https://doi.org/10.4000/transposition.5192 urn:doi:10.4000/transposition.5192 en https://journals.openedition.org/transposition/5192 2020-03-19T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/lmd0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Did Music Cause the End of the World? Transposition Éditions de l’EHESS info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2110-6134 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/transposition Daughtry, J. Martin musique violence environnement pollution anthropocène réchauffement planétaire apocalypse anthropocentrisme trans-corporéité fragilité non-humain music violence environment pollution anthropocene global warming apocalypse anthropocentrism trans-corporeality fragility nonhuman This essay seeks to clarify the relationship between music and environmental violence. After a reflection on the distortions and insights that different frames of reference produce, it places music within an expansive environmental register that encompasses the entirety of human history, up to and including our current era of “slow violence,” industrial pollution, mass extinction, and global warming. Throughout, human musicking is presented as always-already entangled with nonhuman entities and processes. The essay focuses on four of music’s potentialities—its exclusivity, centripetality, instrumentality, and reductivity—and argues that the cumulative effect of musicking has been to help perpetuate a type of anthropocentrism that made industrial-scale environmental violence possible. It concludes by suggesting a number of small tactics for musical thriving in an age when, in Timothy Morton’s words, “the concept of world is no longer operational”. Cet article propose de caractériser la relation entre musique et violence environnementale. Après une réflexion sur les perceptions et distorsions découlant des différents cadres de référence, il s’agit d’examiner la musique dans le registre environnemental le plus large, qui couvre la totalité de l’histoire humaine jusqu’à notre ère de « violence lente », de pollution industrielle, d’extinction de masse, et de réchauffement planétaire. Le musiquer humain doit alors être présenté dans son enchevêtrement systématique avec des entités et processus non-humains. L’article se concentre sur quatre potentialités de la musique – exclusive, centripète, instrumentale et réductive –, et défend qu’elle a eu pour effet cumulatif d’aider à la perpétuation d’une forme d’anthropocentrisme qui a rendu possible la violence environnementale à une échelle industrielle. Il se conclut sur quelques petites tactiques d’épanouissement musical à une époque où, à en croire Timothy Morton, « le concept de monde n’est plus opérationnel ». |
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This essay seeks to clarify the relationship between music and environmental violence. After a reflection on the distortions and insights that different frames of reference produce, it places music within an expansive environmental register that encompasses the entirety of human history, up to and including our current era of “slow violence,” industrial pollution, mass extinction, and global warming. Throughout, human musicking is presented as always-already entangled with nonhuman entities and processes. The essay focuses on four of music’s potentialities—its exclusivity, centripetality, instrumentality, and reductivity—and argues that the cumulative effect of musicking has been to help perpetuate a type of anthropocentrism that made industrial-scale environmental violence possible. It concludes by suggesting a number of small tactics for musical thriving in an age when, in Timothy Morton’s words, “the concept of world is no longer operational”. |
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