Seth Kim-Cohen is Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA. He is the author of Against Ambience and Other Essays (Bloomsbury, 2013), In the Blink of an Ear: Toward A Non-Cochlear Sonic Art (Bloomsbury, 2009), and One Reason to Live: Conversations About Music (2006). With his bands (names_of_music, The Fire Show, Number One Cup), he has released more than a dozen albums and performed throughout North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. John Peel once bought him a beer.

• 1. That’s Peanut Butter! 2. Counter, Culture, Counterculture 3. We Shall Raise the Flag of Nothingness 4. The Politics and Ethics of Ecstasy 5. A Brand New Bag 6. Gnostics of the North, or Music To Recolonize Your Anxious Capitalist Dreams By 7. All The Needles Are on Red 8. The Wee Hours of Etc. 9. The Feeling You’ve Been Cheated 10. Video Killed the Radio Star AcknowledgmentsWorks CitedIndex

Seth Kim-Cohen opens by putting the modernist art critic Michael Fried and punk singer Iggy Pop in a cage match, Fried armed with a frame and a spotlight, Iggy with a microphone and a half-naked body, and never lets them out. Figure after figure is taken through the cage, from Bob Dylan (“He could outdance the spotlight, rupture each successive frame as it stabilized around him”) to James Brown suspending the moment when his popcorn pops (“a libidinal freedom that” he “never allows to surface”) to Adrian Piper measuring her freedom against that of Sol LeWitt (“The borders establishing inclusion and exclusion are traced in the land, the architecture, the art of the society. They don’t need to be stamped ‘Whites Only’”). Connections are rarely what you might expect and they never conclude where, from one side of the cage, they should. Reading Gramsci’s Political Writings in the name of the postpunk/critical theory Leeds band Scritti Politti is one thing. As Eddie Cochran might have put it, simultaneously hearing Little Richard’s “Tutti Frutti” is something else.

Seth Kim-Cohen is Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA. He is the author of Against Ambience and Other Essays (Bloomsbury, 2013), In the Blink of an Ear: Toward A Non-Cochlear Sonic Art (Bloomsbury, 2009), and One Reason to Live: Conversations About Music (2006). With his bands (names_of_music, The Fire Show, Number One Cup), he has released more than a dozen albums and performed throughout North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. John Peel once bought him a beer.

• 1. That’s Peanut Butter! 2. Counter, Culture, Counterculture 3. We Shall Raise the Flag of Nothingness 4. The Politics and Ethics of Ecstasy 5. A Brand New Bag 6. Gnostics of the North, or Music To Recolonize Your Anxious Capitalist Dreams By 7. All The Needles Are on Red 8. The Wee Hours of Etc. 9. The Feeling You’ve Been Cheated 10. Video Killed the Radio Star AcknowledgmentsWorks CitedIndex

Seth Kim-Cohen opens by putting the modernist art critic Michael Fried and punk singer Iggy Pop in a cage match, Fried armed with a frame and a spotlight, Iggy with a microphone and a half-naked body, and never lets them out. Figure after figure is taken through the cage, from Bob Dylan (“He could outdance the spotlight, rupture each successive frame as it stabilized around him”) to James Brown suspending the moment when his popcorn pops (“a libidinal freedom that” he “never allows to surface”) to Adrian Piper measuring her freedom against that of Sol LeWitt (“The borders establishing inclusion and exclusion are traced in the land, the architecture, the art of the society. They don’t need to be stamped ‘Whites Only’”). Connections are rarely what you might expect and they never conclude where, from one side of the cage, they should. Reading Gramsci’s Political Writings in the name of the postpunk/critical theory Leeds band Scritti Politti is one thing. As Eddie Cochran might have put it, simultaneously hearing Little Richard’s “Tutti Frutti” is something else.

Seth Kim-Cohen is Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA. He is the author of Against Ambience and Other Essays (Bloomsbury, 2013), In the Blink of an Ear: Toward A Non-Cochlear Sonic Art (Bloomsbury, 2009), and One Reason to Live: Conversations About Music (2006). With his bands (names_of_music, The Fire Show, Number One Cup), he has released more than a dozen albums and performed throughout North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. John Peel once bought him a beer.

• 1. That’s Peanut Butter! 2. Counter, Culture, Counterculture 3. We Shall Raise the Flag of Nothingness 4. The Politics and Ethics of Ecstasy 5. A Brand New Bag 6. Gnostics of the North, or Music To Recolonize Your Anxious Capitalist Dreams By 7. All The Needles Are on Red 8. The Wee Hours of Etc. 9. The Feeling You’ve Been Cheated 10. Video Killed the Radio Star AcknowledgmentsWorks CitedIndex

Seth Kim-Cohen opens by putting the modernist art critic Michael Fried and punk singer Iggy Pop in a cage match, Fried armed with a frame and a spotlight, Iggy with a microphone and a half-naked body, and never lets them out. Figure after figure is taken through the cage, from Bob Dylan (“He could outdance the spotlight, rupture each successive frame as it stabilized around him”) to James Brown suspending the moment when his popcorn pops (“a libidinal freedom that” he “never allows to surface”) to Adrian Piper measuring her freedom against that of Sol LeWitt (“The borders establishing inclusion and exclusion are traced in the land, the architecture, the art of the society. They don’t need to be stamped ‘Whites Only’”). Connections are rarely what you might expect and they never conclude where, from one side of the cage, they should. Reading Gramsci’s Political Writings in the name of the postpunk/critical theory Leeds band Scritti Politti is one thing. As Eddie Cochran might have put it, simultaneously hearing Little Richard’s “Tutti Frutti” is something else.