Militant Listening and the Sound of Life
by Naomi Waltham-Smith
- Author(s)
- Naomi Waltham-Smith
- Publication
- New York : Fordham University, 2021
- Scope
- 272 Pages, illustrated, 23 cm.
- ISBN
- 9780823294879
A missed phone call. A misheard word. An indiscernible noise. All these can make the difference between life and death. Audibility decides livability. 'Shattering Biopolitics' elaborates the intimate and complex relation between life and sound in recent European philosophy, as well as the political stakes of this entanglement. The publication stages a series of “over-hearings” between Jacques Derrida and Giorgio Agamben, and notions of power and life are further diffracted as Hélène Cixous, Catherine Malabou, and Jean-Luc Nancy join in a high-stakes game of telephone. Punctuating the book are a series of excurses on sound-art projects that interrogate aurality’s subordination, and resistance to biopower, from racialized chokeholds and anti-migrant forensic voice analysis to politicized speech acts and activist practices of listening.
- Person as subject
- Sharon Hayes, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Mendi &
- Keywords
- critical aesthetics , politics , justice , sound , forensic architecture
- Location
- Cabinet 11 - 1: Geluid ; kunst
- Extra themes
- Art and Justice
- Remarks
- Includes notes, selected bibliography, index
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