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On the Understanding of Time in the Real World, and in the World of Computing

The notion of time has intrigued mankind from the pre-Socratic philosophers of Antiquity till the physicists and philosophers of today. From an all-devouring god-like Titan, it be…

On Singing Together

This paper starts from the remarkable habit of yoik singing among the Sámi people and the notion of togetherness in ‘singing together’, being confronted with the role of technolog…

On Music and Tradition

In this paper we elaborate on the question how to bridge the gap between contemporary (New) music and the tradition of the past, often called ‘classical’ music. First we analyze t…

On Music and Perfection: Adorno’s Dialectics, the notion of the Sublime in Slavoj Žižek and in the Cinematography of Werner Herzog

This paper continues two preceding papers, devoted to (1) the notions of mathematics and computability in music, and (2) the problem of inclusiveness in music, or more specific the…

Deconstructing Self-Similarity and the Four Dis-similitudes of Biodiversity

Faced with the problem of defining a global biodiversity estimate in terms of a fractal Global Ecosystem Approach and tackling the problem of interactions between trophic levels, i…

How to Avoid Speaking: The Experience of the Chora in Derrida’s Denials and in Other Paradigms of Negativity

Presumably, the starting point for this paper was formed by Jacques Derrida’s lecture ‘How to avoid speaking: Denials’, given in 1986 in Jerusalem, a lecture devoted to the ancient…

Into the Origins of the Inside – Outside Debate: Rediscovering Smell/Odor and Tracking the Steps of Nietzsche, Proust and Timothy Morton

The philosophical problem of the Inside - Outside duality has a long history. In this paper I recall that not only this duality caught the attention of philosophers like F. Nietzsc…