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Hearing Southeast Asia: Sounds of Hierarchy and Power in Context (NIAS Studies in Asian Topics) There is no moment of our waking life in which we do not experience sounds or make sounds. The human body is a sound-making organism. In densely peopled areas like…
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The Sonic Episteme: Acoustic Resonance, Neoliberalism, and Biopolitics Robin James In The Sonic Episteme Robin James examines how twenty-first-century conceptions of sound as acoustic resonance shape notions of the social world, personhood, and materiality in ways that support white supremacist capitalist patriarchy. Drawing on fields…
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The Hum of the World: A Philosophy of Listening Lawrence Kramer The Hum of the World is an invitation to contemplate what would happen if we heard the world as attentively as we see it. Balancing big ideas with playful wit and lyrical prose, this…
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Sonic Color Line (Postmillennial Pop) Jennifer Stoever The unheard history of how race and racism are constructed from sound and maintained through the listening ear. Race is a visual phenomenon, the ability to see “difference.” At least that is what conventional wisdom has lead us…
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Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control (Sign, Storage, Transmission) Mack Hagood For almost sixty years, media technologies have promised users the ability to create sonic safe spaces for themselves—from bedside white noise machines to Beats by Dre’s “Hear What You Want” ad campaign, in which Colin…
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Sonic Agency: Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance (Goldsmiths Press / Sonics Series (1)) Brandon LaBelle A timely exploration of whether sound and listening can be the basis of political change. In a world dominated by the visual, could contemporary resistances be auditory? This timely…
