Shattering Biopolitics: Militant Listening and the Sound of Life

Naomi Waltham-Smith

Published by Fordham University Press 2021

Shattering Biopolitics

Militant Listening and the Sound of Life

Naomi Waltham-Smith

In the series Commonalities

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823294893

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About this book

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.

The author has an impressive mastery of the texts and writes with exhilarating intellectual virtuosity.

Author / Editor information

Waltham-Smith Naomi :

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.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.

Reviews

Michael Gallope, University of Minnesota:
“A tour-de-force analysis of the role of sound in contemporary biopolitics and a landmark volume within and beyond music studies.”

Peter Szendy, Brown University:
“Shattering Biopolitics brilliantly weaves together two threads: it carefully auscultates the philosophical discourses of deconstruction and biopolitics in order to sound them out on their aural imagination; and it pursues a true ‘politics of listening,’ a performative intervention that seeks to reconfigure the way we lend our ears.”

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
List of Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Prologue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Shatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Excursus 1: Calculation and Stricture in Mendi + Keith Obadike’s Numbers Station Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
2 The Rhythm of Life Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Excursus 2: Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Phonetic Border- Crossings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
3 Mouth(piece) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
Excursus 3: Sharon Hayes’s Addresses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
4 A Use of Ears Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
Excursus 4: The Drive to Listen in Ultra- red’s Militant Sound Investigations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
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Selected Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
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Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 272
Illustrations
- Other: 5 b/w illustrations
Keywords: Aurality; Biopolitics; Deconstruction; Giorgio Agamben; Hélène Cixous; Jacques Derrida; Jean-Luc Nancy; Life; Sound; Sound art

eBook

Published: July 6, 2021
ISBN: 9780823294893