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Machines are the new proletariat. The working class is being given its walking papers.

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For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible.

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What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the supreme irony of it all, never before have musicians tried so hard to communicate with their audience, and never before has that communication been so deceiving. Music now seems hardly more than a somewhat clumsy excuse for the self-glorification of musicians and the growth of a new industrial sector.

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Change is inscribed in noise faster than it transforms society.

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Man's tragedy is that when he can do something, in the end he will always do it

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Jacques Attali

Jacques Attali
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Born: November 1, 1943 (age 81)
Bio: Jacques Attali is a French economist, writer and senior civil servant.
Known for:
  1. A Brief History of the Future (2006)
  2. Noise: The Political Economy of Music (1977)
  3. Les juifs, le monde et l'argent (2002)
  4. The labyrinth in culture and society (1999)
  5. The economic history of the Jewish People (2010)

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