I write this directly to you because... 'i never felt this way for no one'
listening to music in 2025 is bringing me closer to my self which is the same as bringing me close to you and further away from myself, from any self. Further from self and deeper into incompletion, into intersubjectivity, to a non-subjective some thing, more-than self. Might personal listening radically reshape the space-times of experience, with intense and excessive reference to its own circumstance, direct reference to the trials, tribulations, experiences, and transformations of selfhood? What are the limits of possibility of being a person, of being you? (unlimited?) What does a notion of 'you', of being you, set limits on? (everything?) How might troubling those possibilities and limits impact upon your relations with others, with individual and collective agencies? How is a sense of freedom, of escape from violence, and of participation in, perpetration of, violence, obliterated by the very idea of and the relentless multidimensional pursuit of being you? How does musical listening, online and on the move, in headphones and out of time, cut into and cut across this 'you' making? Listening, alone/together, hear and now, as I am as you are, might tell us everything we need to know, already know. Headphones on...
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