Thresholds of Listening

Thresholds of Listening

Sound, Technics, Space

  • Auteur: Maas, Sander van
  • Éditeur: Fordham University Press
  • ISBN: 9780823264377
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780823264407
  • eISBN Epub: 9780823264391
  • Lieu de publication:  New York , United States
  • Année de publication: 2015
  • Année de publication électronique: 2015
  • Mois : Septembre
  • Langue: Anglais

Thresholds of Listening addresses recent and historical changes in the ways listening has been conceived. Listening, having been emancipated from the passive, subjected position of reception, has come to be asserted as an active force in culture and in collective and individual politics.

The contributors to this volume show that the exteriorization of listening— brought into relief by recent historical studies of technologies of listening—involves a re-negotiation of the theoretical and pragmatic distinctions that underpin the notion of listening. Focusing on the manifold borderlines between listening and its erstwhile others, such as speaking, reading, touching, seeing, or hearing, the book maps new frontiers in the history of aurality. They suggest that listening’s finitude— defined in some of the essays as its death or deadliness—should be considered as a heuristic instrument rather than as a mere descriptor.

Listening emerges where it appears to end or to run up against thresholds and limits—or when it takes unexpected turns. Listening’s recent emergence on the cultural and theoretical scene may therefore be productively read against contemporary recurrences of the motifs of elusiveness, finitude, and resistance to open up new politics, discourses, and technologies of aurality.

  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Auditory Re-Turn (The Point of Listening)
  • 2. “Dear Listener . . .”: Music and the Invention of Subjectivity
  • 3. Scenes of Devastation: Interpellation, Finite and Infinite
  • 4. Positive Feedback: Listening behind Hearing
  • 5. “Antennas Have Long Since Invaded Our Brains”: Listening to the “Other Music” in Friedrich Kittler
  • 6. Movement at the Boundaries of Listening, Composition, and Performance
  • 7. The Biopolitics of Noise: Kafka’s “Der Bau”
  • 8. Torture as an Instrument of Music
  • 9. Stop It, I Like It! Embodiment, Masochism, and Listening for Traumatic Pleasure
  • 10. Sounds of Belonging: Accented Writing in Jean Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight
  • 11. Back to the Beat: Silent Orality in Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries
  • 12. The Discovery of Slowness in Music
  • 13. Negotiating Ecstasy: Electronic Dance Music and the Temporary Autonomous Zone
  • Notes
  • List of Contributors
  • Index
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