For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired… — Jacques Attali Copy Share Image
For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. — Jacques Attali Copy Share Image
In noise can be read the codes of life, the relations among men. Clamour, Melody, Dissonance, Harmony; when it is fashioned by man with… — Jacques Attali Copy Share Image
“In the future, a part of this class - individuals particularly sensitive to this question of the future - will realize that their happiness… — Jacques Attali Copy Share Image
Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore. — Jacques Attali Copy Share Image
“A network can be destroyed by noises that attack and transform it, if the codes in place are unable to normalize and repress them.… — Jacques Attali Copy Share Image
The first path a human being ever travels is the path that leads out of the maternal womb. Every human being's first labyrinth is… — Jacques Attali Copy Share Image
For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the… — Jacques Attali Copy Share Image
Fetishized as a commodity, music is illustrative of the evolution of our entire society: deritualize a social form, repress an activity of the body,… — Jacques Attali Copy Share Image
Man's tragedy is that when he can do something, in the end he will always do it — Jacques Attali Copy Share Image
