philosophy
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Sonic Fiction (The Study of Sound) Holger Schulze Sonic fiction is everywhere: in conversations about vernacular culture, in music videos, sound art compositions and on record sleeves, in everyday encounters with sonic experiences and in every single piece of writing…
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The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies (Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions) Michael Bull The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies is an extensive volume presenting a comparative and historically informed understanding of the workings of sound in culture, while also…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Sonic Intimacy: Voice, Species, Technics (or, How To Listen to the World) Dominic Pettman Sonic Intimacy asks us who—or what—deserves to have a voice, beyond the human. Arguing that our ears are far too narrowly attuned to our own species,…