ABSTRACT
Repetition, répétition, and slavery are three aspects of repetition distinguished by their relations to telos. The involvement of repetition (the first aspect) as an action constituting time and life makes it equally constitutional for music. A minimal repetition as change-of-context is closely questioned about its relation to cognition, abstraction, ontology, and intersubjectivity. Deceit teaches us about meaning ironically, and death about time in music and other temporal arts. Replication forms a life. The mass strategy of being-vegetable is unstable; entertainment only steals mana. Our essential envie of the whole is folded back on itself by the deceit music practices about death.
