Maks Sipowicz
What should surprise nobody, companies that are developing large scale machine learning platforms are adamant they shouldn’t need to pay for the data they use to train their models. The Verge has a convenient summary of the responses from big tech.
Unsurprisingly, the responses are all variations of “copyright holders wouldn’t get much of a licensing fee”, “but the investors spent all this money already”, and “what would be the point we did it already”
I started reading Theodor Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory this morning before work. It’s an immensely rich text, and I’ll likely sit with it for a little while. But it’s also immediately putting ideas in my head about doing a bit more reading in this vein. It’s actually been sitting on my shelf waiting its turn for a few years, so glad it found its moment.
For now this is a very preliminary bibliography for what’s going to be a reading project at first. I have some vague ideas about where this might go, but it might also end up nowhere, so let’s keep this loose.
My main focus, I think, will be the four monographs on music. I think the Philosophy of New Music will be as good an entry point as any of the other texts. Beyond this, I want to get into some of the essays, starting with his writings on jazz. I assume that there’s a fair bit of redundancy between the collections of Adorno’s essays below, but I’ll keep them all here until I get to that point. Of the secondary sources, the Cambridge Companion is as good a place as any to start, but Okiji’s book came highly recommended to me as well, so I’ll put it near the top of my list. I imagine all this will multiply the reading list many times over, so I’ll post an update in a little while.
As the list below suggests, this is a very new literature to me, so I would welcome any recommendations and notes
By Adorno:
Secondary:
Philosophy After Dark 