Experimenting the Human: Art, Music, and the Contemporary Posthuman

by G Douglas Barrett

An engaging argument about what experimental music can tell us about being human.

In Experimenting the Human, G Douglas Barrett argues that experimental music speaks to the contemporary posthuman, a condition in which science and technology decenter human agency amid the uneven temporality of postwar global capitalism. Time moves forward for some during this period, while it seems to stand still or even move backward for others...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226823350
• ISBN13: 9780226823355
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"