FC; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Pretext; Introduction; 1 Boring; Introduction; On being bored; A boring history; Cage, Fluxus, and inclusion; Duration; The aesthetics of boredom and the art of waiting; The premises/promises of aesthetic boredom; A less promising boredom; Uglier feelings of the stuplime; Post ... death ... ; Afterthought ... ; 2 Formless; Pretext; (Informe); How to read this chapter; Story; Becoming formless; Music noise; Recording distraction; -- Multitasking; Capture and escape; Lull))))))))); Listening to SoS#16's lull))))); (((((Listening away)))))
Muzak's way of dreaming ubiquitously)))) -- Notes on muzak; -- Quantum modulation; We don't (((listen))) anymore; The (((sound))) of habits; Artifice and the artificial;))))) Desire and dissatisfaction; Last))))); Another again; 3 Nonsense; (Voodoo; ((Metareferentiality, metamusic, and hypermusic; (((Grúpat and pseudonymity; ((((Symptoms, syndromes, and hyperfiction; (((((In a Sedimental Mood; ((((((Hyperstition, magick, and nonsense; (((((((Becoming Karen et al, a Real-Time Hyperstition as of March 30,2007 by Karen Eliot; ((((((((Of lies
(((((((((What does music feel like? (or, "on the refrain of pain andimagining"): Discursive remainders from glossolalia (stress positions)by Engram Knots((((((((((glossolalia (stress positions); (((((((((((Occult dualism; ((((((((((((Illustrative interlude: Practicing; (((((((((((((The sleep side of music and dream-work; Nonsense II; Inconclusion/This chapter is false; Appendix; Bibliography; Index
Boring Formless Nonsense intervenes in an aesthetics of failure that has largely been delimited by the visual arts and its avant-garde legacies. It focuses on contemporary experimental composition in which failure rubs shoulders with the categories of chance, noise, and obscurity. In these works we hear failure anew. We hear boredom, formlessness, and nonsense in a way that gives new purchase to aesthetic, philosophical, and ethical questions that falter in their negative capability. Reshaping debates on failure as an aesthetic category, eldritch Priest shows failure to be a highly dubious con
