Aesthetics and commodity exchange
 

Prevost 181: "Bourgeois art is negative because it reduces all [people] and their works and their aspirations to commodity exchange. Sounds which resist this tendency are therefore perceived as ugly and repulsive to the possessive individualist."
 
182: "The meta-musician refuses to own or be owned. That is the struggle." [final line of book]

> from Edwin Prevost's No Sound Is Innocent: AMM and the Practice of Self-Invention (1995)

> tagged with #sound, #beauty, #capitalism, #art

> created March 21, 2026 at 11:02:25 AM


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