| Summary: | This article intends to investigate some profiles in the life and poetry of New York-based band Velvet Un-derground, searching for some philosophical themes to be found in their short but ground-breaking life in the Sixties. Heralded in Andy Warhol’sFactory as Warhol’s musicalexperience, the band indeed represented a consistent at-tempt to describe the margins and the obscene of capitalistic societies,dealing with a realistic, beat-influenced lan-guage and an experimental, neo-Dadaistic approach in music. Main VU’s subjects such as work and artifice in the age of celebrity and transgenderism, the sadomasochistic experience and its contractual shape, theimpossible party and its journalistic epic are here read with the help of some chosen philosophical text.
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