Shattering Biopolitics
Militant Listening and the Sound of Life
by Naomi Waltham-Smith

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Auteur(s)

Naomi Waltham-Smith

Uitgever

New York : Fordham University, 2021

Omvang

272 p., geïllustreerd, 23 cm.

ISBN

9780823294879

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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.

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Persoon als onderwerp

Sharon Hayes, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Mendi &

Trefwoorden

critical aesthetics , politics , justice , sound , forensic architecture

Locatie in de bibliotheek

Kast 11 - 1: Geluid ; kunst

Extra thema's

Art and Justice

Opmerkingen

Includes notes, selected bibliography, index