As if responding to Leibniz—who once wrote that music is an “occult exercise in mathematics performed by a mind unconscious of…

“As if responding to Leibniz—who once wrote that music is an “occult exercise in mathematics performed by a mind unconscious of the fact that it is counting”—Nietzsche pointed out that in areas like art, quantitative measures are simply inappropriate. “Assuming that one estimated the value of a piece of music according to how much of it could be counted, calculated, and expressed in formulas: how absurd would such a ‘scientific’ estimation of music be! What would one have comprehended, understood, grasped of it? Nothing, really nothing of what is ‘music’ in it!” he wrote.”

– Morozov, Evgeny. To Save Everything, Click Here: Technology, Solutionism and the Urge to Fix Problems That Don’t Exist. London: Allen Lane, 2013. (viacarvalhais)