The Political Possibility of Sound

Fragments of Listening

Salomé Voegelin

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781501312182
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Mezzi di comunicazione e arti performative
• Subtopic: Storia e critica della musica

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.

INDEX

Abu Hamdan, Lawrence here, here, here, here

Adorno, Theodor W.

and essay here

and verticality here

affect; affects here, here, here

as experiential force here

and truth here

affective here

energy here

possibility here

volume here

Afrofuturism here, here, here

Afro-Futurist science fiction here

Agamben, Giorgio

and imagination here

agential here, here (see also Barad)

ethics here

forces here

in-between here, here

intra-action here

realism here, here, here, here, here

reality here, here, here, here

subjects here

agentially real here, here

agents here, here, here

agonistic

game here

and playful here, here

Al-Samman, Ghada here

Angel, Moss here

antagonism here

anthropocentric here, here (see also non- and post-anthropocentric)

hierarchy here

intentionality here

worldview here, here

anthropocentrism here, here

anti-violence here, here, here, here, here (see also violence)

Anywhen (Parreno) here, here, here, here, here, here

architecture here, here, here, here, here, here, here

soft here

static here

visual here

as volume here, here

Arendt, Hannah, here, here

Aristotle here, here, here

asymmetrical here

production here, here

reciprocity here

world here

asymmetry here, here, here

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