The Process That Is the World grapples 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. Cages 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;rdquo; 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.
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