The text is dedicated to musical reproduction by Glenn Gould against the neoliberal omnipotence of the culture industry. The ambivalences and tear-ing contradictions of neoliberalism can be revealed through his playing. From today's perspective, Gould's specific playing and his position on public, now medialized musical life reveal expressive characters of that epoch of which Gould was a contemporary and which has now passed. Drawing on Theodor W. Adorno's unfinished theory of musical reproduction, the content of the latter is actualized precisely by making its motives speak in Glenn Gould's playing. For the interpretation of Gould's music reproduction, the neoliberal sedi-mented relationship between pop music and classical music as well as their respective critique are outlined. At the center of the text itself is Gould's sub-jectivistic activity of reproduction, as expressed in his interpretation and in his withdrawal from concert life. Gould's interpretation of Beethoven's Op 14/2 shows the historical process of decay of bourgeois progress precisely by means of the neoliberally decaying subject and thus once again lets the objec-tive cheerfulness of the bourgeois hope for emancipation ring out. In Gould's specific position on the musical tradition that has been handed down -his fa-mily imprint, Sch??nberg???s ideal of interpretation, the concert situation -it be-comes clear to what extent Gould, based on the demands of modernity, gained a binding character from the beginning of postmodernism, which on-ce again and really re-echoes the truth content of sounding subjectivism.
This essay tries to grasp a special teacher-student relationship, which is currently vanishing. Thereby it sketches a picture of the relation of education and resistance, of theory and praxis. On the one hand it examines the substance of the lecturing by those, for whom the protest of 1968 was a vivid experience. On the other hand it traces the emancipatory concerns of those, who are driven to get in these lectures by these concerns. The paper tries to understand the outlined relationship and its implications by reflecting on the increasing social powerlessness of emancipatory knowledge and tradition in the constellation of the actual disintegrating and brutalising neoliberal capitalism.
Coming from the insight, that consciousness is basically shaped by the contemporary forms of surviving, this paper throws a glance on the actual constellation of wage labour. Criticizing the thesis of the entreployee [Arbeitskraftunternehmer] of H. J. Pongratz and G. G. Vos, it tries to exceed the limits ofpost-marxist sociology of work. By putting the restricted thesis in the frame of today's condition of the capitalistic history of violence it puts the discussionof post-industrial wage labour back into its dialectic with its changed underlying totality. The neoliberal totality is marked as a totality of violent exclusion from the survival-assuring labour market. The paper draws an outline of subjectivity in times of the constitutive redundancy of every individual, by actualizing the psychoanalytical concepts of the adaptation mechanisms debeloped by Paul Parin.
Coming from the insight, that consciousness is basically shaped by the contemporary forms of surviving, this paper throws a glance on the actual constellation of wage labour. Criticizing the thesis of the entreployee [Arbeitskraftunternehmer] of H. J. Pongratz and G. G. Voss, it tries to exceed the limits of post-marxist sociology of work. By putting the restricted thesis in the frame of today's condition of the capitalistic history of violence it puts the discussion of post-industrial wage labour back into its dialectic with its changed underlying totality. The neoliberal totality is marked as a totality of violent exclusion from the survival-assuring labour market. The paper draws an outline of subjectivity in times of the constitutive redundancy of every individual, by actualizing the psychoanalytical concepts of the adaptation mechanisms debeloped by Paul Parin.