Sonic Intimacy - Dominic Pettman

Sonic Intimacy

Voice, Species, Technics (or, How To Listen to the World)

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
144 Seiten
2017
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8047-9988-1 (ISBN)
92,25 inkl. MwSt
Arguing that our ears are far too narrowly attuned to our own species, this book explores different types of voices, both natural and artificial, in the name of helping us to decipher the complex cacophony of an increasingly imperiled planet.
Sonic Intimacy asks us who—or what—deserves to have a voice, beyond the human. Arguing that our ears are far too narrowly attuned to our own species, the book explores four different types of voices: the cybernetic, the gendered, the creaturely, and the ecological. Through both a conceptual framework and a series of case studies, Dominic Pettman tracks some of the ways in which these voices intersect and interact. He demonstrates how intimacy is forged through the ear, perhaps even more than through any other sense, mode, or medium. The voice, then, is what creates intimacy, both fleeting and lasting, not only between people, but also between animals, machines, and even natural elements: those presumed not to have a voice in the first place. Taken together, the manifold, material, actual voices of the world, whether primarily natural or technological, are a complex cacophony that is desperately trying to tell us something about the rapidly failing health of the planet and its inhabitants. As Pettman cautions, we would do well to listen.

Dominic Pettman is Professor of Culture and Media at Eugene Lang College and The New School for Social Research. His most recent book is Infinite Distraction: Paying Attention to Social Media (2016).

Introduction: The Aural Phase

1. The Cybernetic Voice

2. The Gendered Voice

3. The Creaturely Voice

4. The Ecological Voice (Vox Mundi)

Conclusion: In Salutation of All the Voices

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Palo Alto
Sprache englisch
Maße 127 x 203 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie des Mittelalters
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10 0-8047-9988-1 / 0804799881
ISBN-13 978-0-8047-9988-1 / 9780804799881
Zustand Neuware
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