Das Theoretische Duett empfiehlt: Taktiken des Verharmlosens

Music sociologist Prof. Dr. Brigitte Emmersdorfer (Vienna) and journalist and host of various discussion formats Hendrik van den Grachten (Amsterdam) are unified by their long-term and continual search for the manifestation of the fetish character in music, connected with their respective ways of decrypting and forms of experience. Are trauma and spirituality conventional pioneers of the modern?

In numerous symposia in the 90s, they were already pursuing the question of whether, and under what circumstances, we fall prey to a lack of intent. Taking the perspective of Adorno's notion of the dialectic of loneliness, Van den Grachten and Emmersdorfer investigate – in the usual well-prepared manner – contemporary pop culture artists' downplaying tactics, to then be able to offer one or two references to long-existing, more substantial, classical works.