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Sonic Agency: Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance/

LaBelle, Brandon

Sonic Agency: Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance/ Brandon LaBelle - Goldsmiths Press 2020 - 184p; 23x15cm

In a world dominated by the visual, could contemporary resistances be auditory? This timely and important book from Goldsmiths Press highlights sound's invisible, disruptive, and affective qualities and asks whether the unseen nature of sound can support a political transformation. In Sonic Agency, Brandon LaBelle sets out to engage contemporary social and political crises by way of sonic thought and imagination. He divides sound's functions into four figures of resistance—the invisible, the overheard, the itinerant, and the weak—and argues for their role in creating alternative “unlikely publics” in which to foster mutuality and dissent. He highlights existing sonic cultures and social initiatives that utilize or deploy sound and listening to address conflict, and points to their work as models for a wider movement. He considers issues of disappearance and hidden culture, nonviolence and noise, creole poetics, and networked life, aiming to unsettle traditional notions of the “space of appearance” as the condition for political action and survival.


English

9781912685950


Auditory material
N61-72 Theory. Philosophy. Aesthetics of the visual arts
Sound

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