The political possibility of sound : fragments of listening / Salome Voegelin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Voegelin, Salomé, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sound (Philosophy).

Sound in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Summary:

"The essay is the perfect format for a crisis. Its porous and contingent nature forgives a lack of formality, while its neglect of perfection and virtuosity releases the potential for the incomplete and the unrealizable. These seven essays on The Political Possibility of Sound present a perfectly incomplete form for a discussion on the possibility of the political that includes creativity and invention, and articulates a politics that imagines transformation and the desire to embrace a connected and collaborative world. The themes of these essays emerge from and deepen discussions started in Voegelin's previous books, Listening to Noise and Silence and Sonic Possible Worlds. Continuing the methodological juxtaposition of phenomenology and logic and writing from close sonic encounters each represents a fragment of listening to a variety of sound works, to music, the acoustic environment and to poetry, to hear their possibilities and develop words for what appears impossible. As fragments of writing they respond to ideas on geography and migration, bring into play formless subjectivities and trans-objective identities, and practice collectivity and a sonic cosmopolitanism through the hearing of shared volumes. They involve the unheard and the in-between to contribute to current discussions on new materialism, and perform vertical readings to reach the depth of sound."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Light song (a text score)

Introduction : writing fragments

The political possibility of sound

Hearing volumes : architecture, light and words

Geographies of sound : performing impossible territories

Morality of the invisible, ethics of the inaudible

Hearing subjectivities : bodies, forms and formlessness

Sonic materialism : a philosophy of digging

Reading fragments of listening, hearing vertical lines of words

Putting on lipstick (a text score).

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501312199

1501312197

9781501312175

1501312170

OCLC:

1059451005