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1. The social nature of music

2. The collective nature of jazz

3. Bureaucratic empires

4. States and specialists

5. Play farming and play states

6. Kings as the medium for social relations

7. The critical gap in power

8. The political reality behind states

9. The separation of civilization and state

10. Rethinking social evolution and rethinking politics

11. Fascism in a neoliberal age

12. Fascist aesthetics

13. Contemporary aesthetic movements or the lack thereof

14. Improvisatory music and the expression of alienation

15. European Free Improvisation

16. Composition vs improvisation

17. Total improvisation vs professional training

18. Improvisation in community

19. "New sonic relations"

20. Improvisation, process, and transience

21. Leisure vs activity

22. Amateurs and experts, in improvisation

23. Silence in performance

24. "Sincerity of action"

25. Improvisation as a life's work

26. The "sense of occasion" in music

27. Technical specialization vs. culture

28. The decline of folk forms

29. Free improvisation vs. "hack-created" jazz

30. Baudelaire's "art for art's sake"

31. Political economies of the contemporary

32. Improvisation, historically

33. Further Prevost reading

34. C. Small's "Improvisation: History, Directions, Practice"

35. "The nature of sound is transient"

36. Aesthetics and commodity exchange

37. "Playing it wrong"

38. America in physical stasis

39. The "engineering state" vs the "lawyerly society"

40. Engineering waste

41. Industrial robotics in China

42. Policy and hygiene

43. The "body aura"

44. The "cultural hierarchy of the senses"

45. Pathological bodies

46. The flowing body

47. Gynecological medicine

48. Medically defined "health"

49. Where "health" comes from

50. Science and ideology

51. The Scientific Revolution's view of "nature"

52. The category "woman"

53. The body as experience