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Nowy Lef: Financial Capital. Fear Of Silence. ● cassette ● 1991-2021

February 11, 2021
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Nowy Lef: Financial Capital. Fear Of Silence. ● Plavi Pilot ● cassette ● 1991-2021


“Everywhere we look, the monopolization of the broadcast of messages, the control of noise, and the institutionalization of the silence of others assure the durability of power.“

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… Listening to music is listening to all noise, realizing that its appropriation and control is a reflection of power, that it is essentially political….

… Eavesdropping, censorship, recording, and surveillance are weapons of power. The technology of listening in on, ordering, transmitting, and recording noise is at the heart of this apparatus. The symbolism of the Frozen Words, of the Tables of the Law, of recorded noise and eavesdropping – these are the dreams of political scientists and the fantasies of men in power: to listen, to memorize – this is the ability to interpret and control history, to manipulate the culture of a people, to channel its violence and hopes. Who among us is free of the feeling that this process, taken to an extreme, is turning the modern State into a gigantic, monopolizing noise emitter, and at the same time, a generalized eavesdropping device. Eavesdropping on what? In order to silence whom?…

[Jacques Attali: NOISE / The Political Economy of Music]

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