Waltham-Smith Shattering Biopolitics

Militant Listening and the Sound of Life
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-8232-9489-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Reihe: Commonalities

Failures to listen or mishearings can be a matter of life and death. Shattering Biopolitics elaborates the intimate and complex relation between life and sound in philosophy, political theory, and sound-art.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Waltham-Smith, Naomi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Abbreviations ix

Prologue 1

1 Shatter 7

Excursus 1: Calculation and Stricture in Mendi + Keith Obadike’s Numbers Station 38

2 The Rhythm of Life 49

Excursus 2: Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Phonetic Border-Crossings 91

3 Mouth(piece) 100

Excursus 3: Sharon Hayes’s Addresses 145

4 A Use of Ears 158

Excursus 4: The Drive to Listen in Ultra-red’s Militant Sound Investigations 191

Acknowledgments 207

Notes 209

Selected Bibliography 233

Index 243

Über Autor(innen)

Waltham-Smith Naomi:
Naomi Waltham-Smith is Associate Professor in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick. She is the author of Music and Belonging Between Revolution and Restoration (Oxford, 2017). As a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2019–20, she has been developing deconstructive field-recording methodologies to explore contemporary urban marginalization and resistance.Naomi Waltham-Smith is Associate Professor in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick. She is the author of Music and Belonging Between Revolution and Restoration (Oxford, 2017). As a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2019–20, she has been developing deconstructive field-recording methodologies to explore contemporary urban marginalization and resistance.