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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
    Publication Date: 06/07/2021
    ISBN13: 9780823294879, 978-0823294879
    ISBN10: 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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