Institutional Exteriority: A Theory of Sound, Art, and the Institutional Capture of Events develops a theory of how events become available for handling, reference, comparison, preservation, and capture.
The book asks how an event enters handling: how it is localized, how it becomes established as a referable unit, how it opens transferability, and how it becomes connected to procedures of institutional capture. Its concern is not the identity of music, art, work, or practice, but the operations by which such terms begin to carry an event into existing forms of handling.
Across sound, art, work, practice, record, comparison, and trace / evidence, the book constructs an apparatus for distinguishing establishment conditions from subsequent institutional handling. Institutional exteriority is read at the moment of establishment: whether institutional connection had already been built in as a necessary condition for the event to stand as what it became.
Through its standard path, A/B dual specification, account of trace / evidence, comparison apparatus, standard models, practice connection, and pressure-bearing surface, the book follows the difference between an event's establishment and the procedures that later make it handleable, comparable, preservable, and capturable.
This is a theoretical work for readers in sound studies, art theory, aesthetics, media theory, performance studies, cultural theory, institutional critique, and contemporary philosophy who are concerned with how events become units, how units become transferable, and how transferability becomes available to institutional capture.
A theoretical work on how events become handleable, referable, transferable, and capturable across sound, art, work, practice, record, and comparison.
For readers in sound studies, art theory, music theory, aesthetics, media theory, performance studies, institutional critique, and contemporary philosophy.
Develops the concept of institutional exteriority as a condition read at the moment of establishment, before later classification or institutional handling.
delta version research
delta version research is an independent research and publication name for theoretical work concerned with sound, art, event, institutional capture, and the conditions under which practices, works, records, and comparisons become handleable.
Its publications are composed, reviewed, and issued under this name, with particular attention to the relation between theoretical construction, publication form, and the processes by which events become referable and transferable. Institutional Exteriority is its first major theoretical publication.
institutional exteriority Sound Studies art theory Music theory institutional capture