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David Sylvian as a Philosopher
David Sylvian as a Philosopher: A Foray into Postmodern Rock | Leonardo Vittorio Arena
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David Sylvian may be seen as a philosopher, in accordance with the postmodern spirit, who invalidates identity, preserving it at the level of nosound, in a troubled ego/others relationship. His most recent songs have been analysed, as well as the lyrics and Sylvian’s way of life (Tao).What emerges is the portrait of a character who absorbs elements both from the East and the West, where music is the goal of a path of Self-Realization, which brought Sylvian to conceive a new view of arrangement, increasingly deprived of its frills and capable of magnifying his voice.Sylvian shows everybody that silence may become an integral part of music towards nonsense, or the recovery of existential nudity.
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“Narration proceeds along postmodern lines, without precise direction, and according to the principle that no tale is impossible, as long as we delude ourselves that Europe or any other continent can be the centre of the world. The same can be said as to the gods.“

I love this so much, folks!

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This book written for me!

It's almost certainly not for you. Written by an academic philosopher who's also a Sylvian fan. Packing a lot of deep reflection in 55 tight pages, he mentions Nietzsche as often as the Bhagavad-Gita. I loved every page of it. One caveat, the author is Italian and writes English like an Italian. The text would have been more legible in Italian. It's everything that my previous book should have have been. 🤯