Rekret, Paul

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Down with childhood: pop music and the crisis of innocence

by Rekret, Paul

0 Type: Book

"Sometimes popular music registers our concerns and anxieties more lucidly than we realise. This is evident in the case of an ideal of childhood innocence in rapid decay in recent decades. So claims Down with childhood, as it takes in psychedelia's preoccupation with rebirth and…

DW

Down with childhood: pop music and the crisis of innocence

by Rekret, Paul

0 Type: Book

"Sometimes popular music registers our concerns and anxieties more lucidly than we realise. This is evident in the case of an ideal of childhood innocence in rapid decay in recent decades. So claims Down with childhood, as it takes in psychedelia's preoccupation with rebirth and…

This thesis is focused on the intersections of ontology and politics in the work of Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida. In particular it concerns the ways in which these two thinkers offer accounts of (ethical, social, political) relations which exceed a traditional dichotomy b…