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Temperament is a Social Construction

20 August 2026
image: Geog Joseph Vogler, who began speaking of *Mehrdeutigkeit*. Gottfried Weber developed the principles much further. “It follows from the lawless, capricious spirit of the present age, which would egotistically annihilate the world and the …
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We Smoked the Last One an Hour Ago BAAM Edition: Holding and Letting Go

30 June 2026
Holding and Letting Go Chapter 1 of The Illusions of Postmodernism (1996) opens by inviting the reader to imagine a world where the Left had suffered a crippling political defeat. Eagleton’s argument is that postmodernism’s signature moves …
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Emil Awad on Schoenberg/Babbitt Hexachordal poetics

14 March 2026
Mario Davidovsky was an honored guest at FICA21, a new music festival and seminar at the Universiad Veracruzana. He later convinced FICA212’s founder and Director Emil Awad to bring me to Xalapa 15 or 20 years ago. Emil Awad finished high school …
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