Notes from March 2026
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1. The social nature of music
2. The collective nature of jazz
3. Bureaucratic empires
4. States and specialists
5. Play farming and play states
6. Kings as the medium for social relations
7. The critical gap in power
8. The political reality behind states
9. The separation of civilization and state
10. Rethinking social evolution and rethinking politics
11. Fascism in a neoliberal age
12. Fascist aesthetics
13. Contemporary aesthetic movements or the lack thereof
14. Improvisatory music and the expression of alienation
15. European Free Improvisation
16. Composition vs improvisation
17. Total improvisation vs professional training
18. Improvisation in community
19. "New sonic relations"
20. Improvisation, process, and transience
21. Leisure vs activity
22. Amateurs and experts, in improvisation
23. Silence in performance
24. "Sincerity of action"
25. Improvisation as a life's work
26. The "sense of occasion" in music
27. Technical specialization vs. culture
28. The decline of folk forms
29. Free improvisation vs. "hack-created" jazz
30. Baudelaire's "art for art's sake"
31. Political economies of the contemporary
32. Improvisation, historically
33. Further Prevost reading
34. C. Small's "Improvisation: History, Directions, Practice"
35. "The nature of sound is transient"
36. Aesthetics and commodity exchange
37. "Playing it wrong"
38. America in physical stasis
39. The "engineering state" vs the "lawyerly society"
40. Engineering waste
41. Industrial robotics in China
42. Policy and hygiene
43. The "body aura"
44. The "cultural hierarchy of the senses"
45. Pathological bodies
46. The flowing body
47. Gynecological medicine
48. Medically defined "health"
49. Where "health" comes from
50. Science and ideology
51. The Scientific Revolution's view of "nature"
52. The category "woman"
53. The body as experience

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