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020			_a9781912685950
100			_aLaBelle, Brandon _97106
245		0	_aSonic Agency: Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance/ _cBrandon LaBelle
260			_bGoldsmiths Press _c2020
300			_a184p; _c23x15cm
520			_aIn 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.
546			_aEnglish
650			_aAuditory material _97107
650			_aN61-72 Theory. Philosophy. Aesthetics of the visual arts
650			_aSound _96785
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