Poetics of Listening - Inner Life, Social Transformation, Planetary Practices

In Poetics of Listening , renowned sounds studies scholar Brandon LaBelle brings critical attention to listening as a practice, one that can wield significant impact onto individual, interpersonal and communal wellbeing. From social inclusion to intersubjective understanding, deep attention to healing and repair, political recognition to ecological sensitivity, listening is fundamental to negotiating our most fundamental challenges. Through thoughtful examinations of listening''s role across society, Poetics of Listening convincingly shows listening to be not only important to social struggles, but a form of poetic imagination and communion. It moves listening toward a broader application and view, which includes the ability to listen across human and more-than-human worlds, to listen into or with one''s body, or to listen out for futures to come as well as addressing unfinished histories, and it challenges us to think more broadly about what it means to hear and be heard within today''s complex environments.>

About the author

Brandon LaBelle is an artist, writer and artistic director of The Listening Biennial and related Listening Academy. His work focuses on questions of agency, community, and poetics, which results in a range of collaborative and extra-institutional initiatives. In 1995 he founded Errant Bodies Press, an independent publishing project. His publications include: Dreamtime X (2022), Acoustic Justice (Bloomsbury 2021), The Other Citizen (2020), Sonic Agency (2018), Lexicon of the Mouth (Bloomsbury 2014), Acoustic Territories (Bloomsbury 2010, 2019), and Background Noise (Bloomsbury 2006, 2015).

Product details

• Authors: Brandon LaBelle, LaBelle Brandon
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.03.2025
• EAN: 9798765125816
• ISBN: 9798765125816
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Cultural Studies, Social Theory, MUSIC / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Body Language & Nonverbal Communication, Listening skills, Psychological methodology, Social and ethical issues, Interpersonal communication and skills