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Failures to listen or mishearings can be a matter of life and death.
Shattering Biopolitics elaborates the intimate and complex relation between life and sound in philosophy, political theory, and sound-art.
List of contents
List of Abbreviations | ix
Prologue | 1
1 Shatter | 7
Excursus 1: Calculation and Stricture in Mendi + Keith Obadike's
Numbers Station | 38
2 The Rhythm of Life | 49
Excursus 2: Lawrence Abu Hamdan's Phonetic Border-Crossings | 91
3 Mouth(piece) | 100
Excursus 3: Sharon Hayes's Addresses | 145
4 A Use of Ears | 158
Excursus 4: The Drive to Listen in Ultra-red's Militant Sound Investigations | 191
Acknowledgments | 207
Notes | 209
Selected Bibliography | 233
Index | 243
About the author
Naomi Waltham-Smith is Associate Professor in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick. She is the author of
Music and Belonging Between Revolution and Restoration (Oxford, 2017). As a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2019-20, she has been developing deconstructive field-recording methodologies to explore contemporary urban marginalization and resistance.
Summary
Failures to listen or mishearings can be a matter of life and death. Shattering Biopolitics elaborates the intimate and complex relation between life and sound in philosophy, political theory, and sound-art.
