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Music, discourse and intuitive technology

Author: Jonathan Impett

Published in: AI & SOCIETY | Issue 5/2023

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This paper proposes that intuitive technologies play a vital role in cognition and cultural reception. The case of music is considered in particular. The perceived temporality of contemporary technology is shown to be an artificial barrier to the acknowledgement of longer-term dynamics. The increased role of explanatory metaphors from technology is traced across various fields of study. Processes of sense-making—conscious or otherwise—are seen as an informal, unreflected repertory of mechanisms ranging from predictive models to instrumental metaphors. It is suggested that these derive by assimilation and induction from the technological milieu within which the subject develops and operates. The acquisition of these models and metaphors is itself an imaginative process, based on experience ranging from partial expertise to fantastical extrapolation.

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Title: Music, discourse and intuitive technology
Author: Jonathan Impett
Publication date: 28-01-2021
Publisher: Springer London
Published in: AI & SOCIETY / Issue 5/2023
Print ISSN: 0951-5666
Electronic ISSN: 1435-5655
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-020-01126-4

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