John Cage, Gilles Deleuze and the Practice of Experimentation

Iain Campbell is a writer and researcher based in Glasgow, Scotland. He works on topics across philosophy, music, sound studies, and modern and contemporary art, with a particular interest in continental philosophy and experimental music. His academic writing has been published in venues including parallax, Continental Philosophy Review, and Contemporary Music Review, and he has had art criticism published in venues including Burlington Contemporary. His most recent academic position was as Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Edinburgh, and he has also worked at the University of Brighton and the University of Dundee. He is co-editor of Contingency and Plasticity in Everyday Technologies (with Natasha Lushetich and Dominic Smith; Rowman and Littlefield, 2022) and Distributed Perception: Resonances and Axiologies (with Natasha Lushetich; Routledge, 2021).

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Experiments in sound and thought1. In the laboratory: problematising experimentation2. From the chamber to the shore: silence, listening, and the Idea of sound3. Chance and indeterminacy: series, structure, and practice4. Nature’s rhythmic modulations: an onto-ethological experimentalism5. A minor music?: rethinking and redoing experimentationPostscript: Transdisciplinary experimentationAppendix: Selected media References