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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.

Table of Contents

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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      Publisher Fordham University Press
      Published 6 July 2021
      ISBN-13 9780823294879
      978-0823294879
      ISBN-10 0823294870
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents

      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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