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.
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.
Naomi Waltham-Smith is Professor of Music at the University of Oxford and Douglas Algar Tutorial Fellow at Merton College. She works at the intersection of sound and music studies with deconstruction, decolonial theory, and Black radical thought, focusing on the politics of listening. She is the author of Music and Belonging between Revolution and Restoration (Oxford University Press, 2017), Shattering Biopolitics: Militant Listening and the Sound of Life (Fordham University Press, 2021), Mapping (Post)colonial Paris by Ear (Cambridge University Press, 2023), and Free Listening (Nebraska University Press, 2024).
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List of Abbreviations ix Prologue 1 1 Shatter 7 Excursus 1: Calculation and Stricture in Mendi + Keith Obadike's Numbers Station 38 2 The Rhythm of Life 49 Excursus 2: Lawrence Abu Hamdan's Phonetic Border-Crossings 91 3 Mouth(piece) 100 Excursus 3: Sharon Hayes's Addresses 145 4 A Use of Ears 158 Excursus 4: The Drive to Listen in Ultra-red's Militant Sound Investigations 191 Acknowledgments 207 Notes 209 Selected Bibliography 233 Index 243
List of Abbreviations ix Prologue 1 1 Shatter 7 Excursus 1: Calculation and Stricture in Mendi + Keith Obadike's Numbers Station 38 2 The Rhythm of Life 49 Excursus 2: Lawrence Abu Hamdan's Phonetic Border-Crossings 91 3 Mouth(piece) 100 Excursus 3: Sharon Hayes's Addresses 145 4 A Use of Ears 158 Excursus 4: The Drive to Listen in Ultra-red's Militant Sound Investigations 191 Acknowledgments 207 Notes 209 Selected Bibliography 233 Index 243
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