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Zusatztext Annihilating Noise disrupts the ways we have previously thought about noise and its relation to music, silence and culture more generally. Hegarty combines his previous theories of sonic disturbance with an astonishing array of theoretical approaches, turning the idea of noise every which way in order to re-energise discussions of gender, race and the technological economies. Japanese noise, Hip-Hop, sonic ecology, improvisation, video art and a whole lot more are used to rethink what it means to listen—and through which devices—to sonic disturbance. Poetic, eclectic and bold, this is a theoretical tour de force that will make you hear differently, a skill that has never been so urgently required. Informationen zum Autor Paul Hegarty is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the author and editor of 11 books that span critical and cultural theory, rock, experimental and noise music, as well as audiovisual art including Noise/Music (Bloomsbury, 2007), Rumour and Radiation (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Annihilating Noise (Bloomsbury, 2020). He is also Co-editor of Bloomsbury's Ex:Centrics series.A follow-up to Hegarty's successful Noise/Music , this book looks at noise in a range of contexts within sound studies and cultural theory. Zusammenfassung Noise has become a model of cultural and theoretical thinking over the last two decades. Following Hegarty's influential 2007 book, Noise/Music , Annihilating Noise discusses in sixteen essays how noise offers a way of thinking about critical resistance, disruptive creativity and a complex yet enticing way of understanding the unexpected, the dissonant, the unfamiliar.It presents noise as a negativity with no fixed identity that can only be defined in connection and opposition to meaning and order. This book reaches beyond experimental music and considers noise as an idea and practice within a wide range of frameworks including social, ecological, and philosophical perspectives. It introduces the ways in which the disruptive implications of noise impact our ways of thinking, acting, and organizing in the world, and applies it to 21st-century concerns and today’s technological ecology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Where Is Noise as Practice and Theory Today? I. Ungrounding 1. Earth Apathy: A General Ecology of Sound2. Catch and Capture: ‘Field’ and ‘Recording’ in Field Recording3. The Empty Channel: Noise Music and the Pathos of Information4. Eon Cores: Noise Prospecting in A Personal Sonic Geology II. Unsettled 5. Is There Black Noise?6. After Generation: Pharmakon, Puce Mary and the Spatialized, Gendered Avant-Garde7. The Silence III. Unmoored 8. Playing Economies9. The Spectacle of Listening10. The Restoration: Vinyl and the Dying Market11. The Hallucinatory Life of Tape IV. Undermined 12. Supplementing (in) Joy Division, Unknown Pleasures 13. Less Familiar: The Near-Music of David Jackman and Organum14. BUNK: Origins and Copies in Nurse With Wound and The New Blockaders15. Vile Heretical Misprision: Dante’s Commedia as Metal Theory16. Noise Hunger Noise Consumption: The Question of How Much is Enough Index ...
