The Ontoriography of Music in the Twenty-First Century
Wilson, S. (2026). The Ontoriography of Music in the Twenty-First Century: Absence and Identification. Edinburgh University Press.
2026
View OutputDr Samuel J. Wilson
Key details:
- Department:
- Academic Studies | Composition
- Role:
- Research Fellow and Tutor in Music Philosophy and the Arts
Biography & Pure profile
Dr Samuel J. Wilson is a researcher and lecturer whose work focuses principally on contemporary music and the performing arts in their critical contexts. He has published on critical theory, materialist, and psychoanalytic approaches to music and sound art, for example in his monograph New Music and the Crises of Materiality: Sounding Bodies and Objects in Late Modernity (Routledge, 2021), the edited collection Music—Psychoanalysis—Musicology (Routledge, 2018), and the co-edited special issue of the journal Contemporary Music Review (2020) on ‘Musical Materialisms’. His articles appear in journals such as Twentieth-Century Music, the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, and Music and Letters, and chapters in books such as The Sound of Žižek: Musicological Perspectives on Slavoj Žižek and Music of Absence: An Aesthetics of Loss in the New Millennium. He is currently working on a project on contemporary modernism in music, as well as one on nonhuman systems in contemporary music and choreography. He is on the committee of the RMA's Music and Philosophy Study Group.
Recent Research Outputs
Adam Blum, Peter Goldberg, and Michael Levin, Here I’m Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis
Wilson, S. (2024). Adam Blum, Peter Goldberg, and Michael Levin, Here I’m Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis and History , 26(2). https://doi.org/10.3366/pah.2024.0518
2024
View OutputNeoliberal Reason, Contemporary Music, and Proximal Critique
Wilson, S. (2024). Neoliberal Reason, Contemporary Music, and Proximal Critique. Twentieth-Century Music. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/twentieth-century-music/article/abs/neoliberal-reason-contemporary-music-and-proximal-critique/E5090D0E0D3179B5CCB82A384B647F5E
2024
View Output‘Cage, Reich, and Morris: Process and Sonic Fetishism’ in The Sound of Žižek: Musicological Perspectives on Slavoj Žižek
Wilson, S., & Bertola, M. F. (Ed.) (2023). ‘Cage, Reich, and Morris: Process and Sonic Fetishism’ in The Sound of Žižek: Musicological Perspectives on Slavoj Žižek. Peter Lang.
2023
View Output‘Musical Time in a Fast World,’ in The Oxford Handbook of Time in Music
Wilson, S., Young, T. (Ed.), Payne, E. (Ed.), & Doffman, M. (2022). ‘Musical Time in a Fast World,’ in The Oxford Handbook of Time in Music. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190947279.013.27
2022
View OutputNew Music and the Crises of Materiality: Sounding Bodies and Objects in Late Modernity
Wilson, S. (2021). New Music and the Crises of Materiality: Sounding Bodies and Objects in Late Modernity. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003038535
2021
View OutputIntroduction: Musical Materialisms
Wilson, S., van Elferen, I., & Sergeant, M. (2020). Introduction: Musical Materialisms. Contemporary Music Review, 39(5), 517-525.
2020
View OutputStrategies of Conquest and Defence: Musical Encounters with the Object in Twentieth Century Music
Wilson, S. (2020). Strategies of Conquest and Defence: Musical Encounters with the Object in Twentieth Century Music. Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 145(2), 457-484.
2020
View OutputDoes the Psychoanalysis of Music Have a “Subject”?
Wilson, S. (2018). Does the Psychoanalysis of Music Have a “Subject”? Routledge.
2018
View OutputIntroduction
Wilson, S. (2018). Introduction. Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315596563-1/introduction-samuel-wilson
2018
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