{"product_id":"vinyl-theory-9781643150154","title":"Vinyl Theory","description":"Why are vinyl records making a comeback? How is their resurgence connected to the political economy of music? \u003ci\u003eVinyl Theory \u003c\/i\u003eresponds to these and other questions by exploring the intersection of vinyl records with critical theory. In the process, it asks how the political economy of music might be connected with the philosophy of the record. The young critical theorist and composer Theodor Adorno's work on the philosophy of the record and the political economy of music of the contemporary French public intellectual, Jacques Attali, are brought together with the work of other theorists in order to understand the fall and resurrection of vinyl records. The major argument of \u003ci\u003eVinyl Theory\u003c\/i\u003e is that the very existence of vinyl records may be central to understanding the resiliency of neoliberalism. This argument is made by examining the work of Adorno, Attali, Friedrich Nietzsche, and others on music through the lens of Michel Foucault's biopolitics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeffrey R. Di Leo\u003c\/b\u003e is Dean of the School of Arts \u0026amp; Sciences, and Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston-Victoria. He is also Executive Director of the Society for Critical Exchange. He is editor and publisher of the \u003ci\u003eAmerican Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and founder and editor of the journal \u003ci\u003eSymploke\u003c\/i\u003e, which was awarded the Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement (2000) and a Best Special Issue Award (2012) by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ). He has edited and authored over twenty books. His recent titles include: \u003ci\u003eWhat's Wrong with Antitheory?\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2019), \u003ci\u003eThe End of American Literature: Essays from the Late Age of Print\u003c\/i\u003e (Texas Review Press, 2019), \u003ci\u003eBloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2018), \u003ci\u003eThe Debt Age\u003c\/i\u003e (Routledge, 2018; with Peter Hitchcock and Sophia McClennen), \u003ci\u003eExperimental Literature: A Collection of Statements\u003c\/i\u003e (JEF Books, 2018; with Warren Motte), \u003ci\u003eHigher Education under Late Capitalism: Identity, Conduct, and the Neoliberal Condition\u003c\/i\u003e (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), and \u003ci\u003eAmerican Literature as World Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2017).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lever Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50859181015314,"sku":"9781643150154","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4a858a5d-d3b7-4fb2-840c-75f5b1be2558.jpg?v=1737551442","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/vinyl-theory-9781643150154","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}