Stop Making Sense offers an original and compelling theory of music -from the perspective of the real- as this term is understood according to the Lacanian orientation in psychoanalysis. Located in a mediating position between the subject and the real, music is here regarded as a form of social bond analogous to but quite distinct from the language of speech, operating -outside sense-. Music, like mathematics, is often regarded as a -language- of the real in two senses: as a particulate system of essentially meaningless notes and tones that nevertheless provide regularities offering...