[Dancecult-l] Neil Huthnance; serial music

[Nibelungentreue at aol.com]

Hi everyone,
I've just received my welcoming email, so I thought I should follow the advice and introduce myself. My name is Neil Huthnance, and I have just graduated my PhD in sociology at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

The title of my thesis is "Creativity in the Bioglobal Age: Sociological Prospects from Seriality to Contingency", and it attempts to trace correspondences between conceptions of autopoiesis (read "posthumanism"), seriality, and avant garde intellectual/artistic formations. Although it is only in the Acknowledgements page that I mention some of these potential links in relation specifically to the culture of electronic  music, I hope to be able to unpack them further in the future in a manner generally anticipated in my thesis.

I'm starting to develop a sense that "darkwave", "isolationist" and early "industrial" music in particular trade on not only serial composition techniques, but also, with varying degrees of critical awareness, something like a one sided emphasis on the face of modernism Raymond Williams described as concerned with "extreme and precarious forms of consciousness...a paradoxical self realisation in isolation". I wonder if the themes of the music can therefore be traced to the producer relations Williams criticised as typical of "the new conformism" in artistic avant garde circles?

These are, for the moment at least, just are few unorganised thoughts. In any case, I am already finding the list to be a very valuable resource. 

My best wishes,

Neil Huthnance