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WRAP THESIS Goodman 1999
"WRAP THESIS Goodman 1999" treats jungle, techno, garage, or club culture as a laboratory for thinking futurity, rhythm, and public theory.
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Core idea
The central claim is that music scenes are not just illustrations of theory but engines of temporal and cultural experimentation. Jungle, techno, garage, and breakcore become methods for thinking futurity from below.
These texts work by translating rhythm, production, and scene memory into conceptual vocabulary. Club cultures become sites where time, collectivity, and technological mediation are actively reworked.
That matters because the archive's sonic line depends on culture moving through dance floors, pirate radio, and interviews as much as through philosophy. Public theory here is inseparable from musical circulation.
How to read this text
Read for how the page connects rhythm or scene history to larger claims about time, futurity, or collectivity.
Notice where criticism turns into method. The strongest pages in this cluster use music discourse as a way of building concepts, not merely decorating them.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 6
On this continuum, it will be argued, can be found parallel processes working on every scale suggesting emergent signs of a radically new technological civilization, a cybernetic culture, with a corresponding reconfiguration of violence in humanoid populations. The thesis is divided into 5 sectors which I will now briefly outline: In Sector 1 Cartography, the parameters of the study will be delimited, setting out why the focus of the thesis concerns a cartography of postmodern violence.
History · paragraph 2
Turbulence: a cartography of postmodern violence Steve Goodman, LLB(Hons) & Philosophy, M.Phil. Thesis submitted for Ph.D in Philosophy University of Warwick Department of Philosophy, Social Studies Faculty January 1999
History · paragraph 10
In Sector 3 War Continuum, the non-linear social dynamics developed in Sector 2 are applied to history and social evolution, setting the cartography in motion across time. Sector 3.1. non- linear history, explains machinic postmodernism's critique of teleology and thermal equilibrium in narratives of historical evolution, Occidental triumphalism, technological progress and the route from the jungle to cybernetic civilization.
History · paragraph 10
Sector 3.1. non- linear history, explains machinic postmodernism's critique of teleology and thermal equilibrium in narratives of historical evolution, Occidental triumphalism, technological progress and the route from the jungle to cybernetic civilization.
History · paragraph 2
Thesis submitted for Ph.D in Philosophy University of Warwick Department of Philosophy, Social Studies Faculty January 1999
Appears in sections
Sonic Futures and Audio Theory Primary section
Jungle, Hyperdub, sonic warfare, and the sound-centered pathways into the archive's theory culture.