Thresholds of listening : sound, technics, space / edited by Sander van Maas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maas, Sander van, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Listening (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, [New York] : Fordham University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Thresholds of Listening addresses recent and historical changes in the ways listening has been conceived. Listening, having been emancipated from the passive, subjected position of reception, has come to be asserted as an active force in culture and in collective and individual politics. The contributors to this volume show that the exteriorization of listening— brought into relief by recent historical studies of technologies of listening—involves a re-negotiation of the theoretical and pragmatic distinctions that underpin the notion of listening. Focusing on the manifold borderlines between listening and its erstwhile others, such as speaking, reading, touching, seeing, or hearing, the book maps new frontiers in the history of aurality. They suggest that listening’s finitude— defined in some of the essays as its death or deadliness—should be considered as a heuristic instrument rather than as a mere descriptor. Listening emerges where it appears to end or to run up against thresholds and limits—or when it takes unexpected turns. Listening’s recent emergence on the cultural and theoretical scene may therefore be productively read against contemporary recurrences of the motifs of elusiveness, finitude, and resistance to open up new politics, discourses, and technologies of aurality.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction

1. The Auditory Re-Turn (The Point of Listening)

2. “Dear Listener . . .”: Music and the Invention of Subjectivity

3. Scenes of Devastation: Interpellation, Finite and Infinite

4. Positive Feedback: Listening behind Hearing

5. “Antennas Have Long Since Invaded Our Brains”

6. Movement at the Boundaries of Listening, Composition, and Performance

7. The Biopolitics of Noise: Kafka’s “Der Bau”

8. Torture as an Instrument of Music

9. Stop It, I Like It!

10. Sounds of Belonging

11. Back to the Beat

12. The Discovery of Slowness in Music

13. Negotiating Ecstasy

NOTES

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8232-6678-8

0-8232-6441-6

0-8232-6440-8

OCLC:

914289674