A presentation that I gave on the 27th of October 2008 at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis for the Music and Sound Studies Initiative lecture series organized by Sumanth Gopinath.
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about intellectual image
In this research project, I conceive agency as an attribute of medial operations rather than of individuals. Certain combinations of operations produce an agent, which may or may not coincide with an actual person. Consequently, I argue that the term “intellectual” invokes an outdated practice. Not the intellectual is an endangered species, but his text-based and text-biased medial operations. As an alternative, I have looked at sound and music engineering as a practice of knowledge production.
about time tracks
The monograph Time Tracks constructs anachronistic and eclectic constellations of philosophical concepts, biographical narratives and popular music. It stages unexpected encounters between Gilles Deleuze, Prince, Walter Benjamin, Franz Kafka, Vilém Flusser, Marvin Gaye, Michel Foucault, Camille and Marshall McLuhan. What brings this wide range of philosophers, media theorists, authors, and artists together is a shared concern; they all struggle with time.
about me
Jan Hein Hoogstad is a lecturer in Comparative Literature and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam.
mapping session 1
A prezi map made out of individual students projects for my course ‘Space is the Place: Literature, Music and Spatiality’.
get on the good foot
This is the first draft of my contribution to the volume Pluralizing Rhythm that I am currently editing with Birgitte Stougaard. All comments and suggestions are welcome! In this text I analyse James Brown’s concept of ‘The One’ (or downbeat) into popular music as a revolution. “Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag” — the song in which ‘The One’ was introduced — is not a revolution because it made any major alterations. On the contrary, it simply performed a minuscule shift. A change that cannot be seen, touched, smelled, or heard but is real nonetheless.