Objects That Make Music

Will someone soon extend objectology into the realm of “musical objects”? Here’s some (long but awesome) food for thought:

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Random Tune: Galina Ustvolskaya

Reminded of Ustvolskaya yesterday, I found this gem on YouTube – enjoy: There’s also a great amount of her music on youtube as well.

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New (Awesome) Schnittke

Toccata Records (a rather interesting label with a rather interesting agenda) has a new Schnittke record out called Discoveries. If you are a fan of all things awesome (or you would like to pretend to be to impress that special someone), give this a listen. You can hear some samples on Toccata website. The output [...]

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Frankfurt School in Exile (new book)

Sorry, a boring post to remind myself to pick this book up.  Anyway, I’m looking forward to reading this newish book by Thomas Wheatland, The Frankfurt School in Exile: Members of the Frankfurt School have had an enormous effect on Western thought, beginning soon after Max Horkheimer became the director of the Institute for Social [...]

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Medici.TV ~ Free Concert Broadcast.

I meant to post about this, but forgot and now I was reminded that tomorrow (1/29) you can hear/see a free concert from Paris (8pm Paris time) of Gergiev conducting a couple of symphonies by Tchaikovsky (on Medici.TV): The most prestigious Russian orchestra will perform Symphonies No.3 and No.6 by Tchaikovsky within the framework of France-Russia [...]

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And Then God Created Objects…

Yet again we have prove that the ever-popular lists of random objects (much ridiculed by many people) were not invented by Objectologist the Father:

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Philosophy and Rotten Metatheory

While searching for a Wittgenstein reference I chanced upon this comment by Rogers Albritton: Philosophy, as he [Wittgenstein] means to be practicing it “simply puts everything before us, [it] neither explains nor deduces anything” and it “may not advance any kind of theory” (Philosophical Investigations I 126, 109). Its aim is, rather, “complete clarity,” which [...]

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AAUP Journal of Academic Freedom Launched

AAUP Journal of Academic Freedom: With this issue we introduce a new online project—the AAUP Journal of  Academic Freedom. Scholarship on academic freedom—and on its relation to  shared governance, tenure, and collective bargaining—is typically scattered across a wide range of disciplines. People who want to keep up with the field thus face a difficult task. Moreover, there [...]

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Trouble In Paradise?

UPDATE II: We should seriously consider going into “objectology gossip blog” business full time (see image). Also, I would like to add that, if it’s not clear to some readers, we are solely and firmly on Paul’s side of this battle, regardless of the real reasons for Harman-Ennis break up. UPDATE: I hear some awesome [...]

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Mark C. Taylor: Provocations?

While  much of Taylor’s vision for the university in the NY Times last year rubbed me, and many others, the wrong way with its defense of free market ideology (see here and here), I do agree with this: “Peer review and specialization are the worst things for creativity. They completely militate against working outside very [...]

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