“A few words to sing”
Abstract
the function of art and politics is to make people dream, to fulfill their desires (but not to allow their realization), to transform the world, to change life, to offer a stage on which desire (the director) plays out its fantasmatical theatrics. The operations common to the dream (or to the symptom), to this art, and to this politics must, therefore, be recovered and made manifest. One such manifestation is critique , which must now be applied to art and politics.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Critical Theory and Political Philosophy
Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy
Samuel Beckett and Modernism
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Music and Ideology
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Pages
- 15–36
- Publication date
- 21 January 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter