{"product_id":"9781628925739","title":"The Process That Is the World: Cage\/Deleuze\/Events\/Performances","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Process That Is the World \u003c\/i\u003egrapples with John Cage not just as a composer, but as a philosopher advocating for an ontology of difference in keeping with the kind posited by Gilles Deleuze. Cage's philosophy is not simply a novel method for composition, but an extensive argument about the nature of reality itself, the construction of subjects within that reality, and the manner in which subjectivity and a self-creative world exist in productive tension with one another. Over the course of the study, these themes are developed in the realms of the ontology of a musical work, performance practices, ethics, and eventually a study of Cagean politics and the connection between aesthetic experience and the generation of new forms of collective becoming-together. The vision of Cage that emerges through this study is not simply that of the maverick composer or the \"inventor of genius,” but of a thinker and artist responding to insights about the world-as-process as it extends through the philosophical, artistic, and ethical registers: the world as potential for variance, reinvention, and permanent revolution.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47149094371568,"sku":"9781628925739","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781628925739_p0.jpg?v=1763868399","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781628925739","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}