Includes bibliographical references and index.

The culture of eros : repetition as desire creation -- Do it ('til you're satisfied) : repetitive musics and recombinant desires -- "A colorful installment in the twentieth-century drama of consumer subjectivity" : minimalism and the phenomenology of consumer desire -- The media sublime : minimalism, advertising, and television -- The culture of Thanatos : repetition as mood regulation -- "A pox on Manfredini" : the long-playing record, the baroque revival, and the birth of ambient music -- "I did this exercise 100,000 times" : zen, minimalism, and the Suzuki method.

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