Consumo e experiência estética

duas leituras de Kid A, do Radiohead

Abstract

Consumption and aesthetic appreciation coexist in the radiophonic repertoire. The demand for entertainment stresses the sensory and immediate, whereas the labor over language occasionally entails reflexivity and formal conscience. Among different perspectives regarding the music mediated by the culture industry, I present two divergent readings of the Radiohead album Kid A, standing for listening practices that vary from resolute adherence to cultural consumption to traces of musical hermeneutics. Relying on the thought of Theodor Adorno, I discuss how this problem ends up reduced to the poles of commodification and aesthetic expression. Eventually, I make appointments towards a lapse aesthetics grounded in concepts by Vilém Flusser.