Description
Book SynopsisHolger Schulze is Professor of Musicology at the University of Copenhagen and Principal Investigator at the Sound Studies Lab. He is the author of numerous books including
Sound as Popular Culture (2016) and
The Sonic Persona (Bloomsbury, 2017).
Trade ReviewA rich and timely meditation on a concept central to sonic theory. * The Wire *
Sonic Fiction touches on relevant issues concerning contemporary popular culture in a globalized world, while presenting innovative research and fresh theoretical ideas. * Carla J. Maier, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and author of Transcultural Sound Practices: British Asian Dance Music as Cultural Transformation (2020) *
The main benefit of
Sonic Fiction is to open up the particular approach of Kodwo Eshun's 'Sonic Fiction' to a broader public and outline the several fields of discourse that have built upon his concept. Informed by sound anthropology and the newly emerging transdisciplinary field of sound studies, this volume identifies and explains the specific contribution of the 'Sonic Fiction' approach to an epistemology of sound. * Rolf Großmann, Professor in Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media, University of Lüneburg, Germany *
A thoughtful introduction to some of the most vital tendencies in 21st-century auditory arts and cultural theory. Sonic fictions are generative systems: synthesizers of ideas, recomposers of politics, collective transducers. Schulze's book offers a timely and a forward-looking appraisal of Kodwo Eshun's work and its proliferating influence. * Paul Jasen, Lecturer in Music, Carleton University, Canada *
Table of ContentsExtradition: What Is Sonic Fiction? A Force of Liberation Enforced Landianisms More Like a Group of Otoliths
1. Sonic Thinking: A Mixillogic MythScience of Mutantextures The Mythscience of Sonic Warfare The Mixillogics of Sonic Epistemologies The Mutantextures of Sonic Possible Worlds What Is Sonic Thinking?
2. Social Progress: Sensibilities of the Implex Dath's Mixillogics The Dialectics of the Implex Valéry's Sensibilities Even Wrong Ideas Can Be Made True
3. Black Aurality: Alien Sonic Nontologies Black Aurality The Diffraction of Mythscience Alter Nation, AlterDestiny & Autohistoria Decolontologies
4. Sensory Epistemologies: Syrrhesis and Sensibility The Body of the Researcher Syrrhesis Fiction Beyond the Idiosyncrasy of Logocentrism Multiplying Epistemologies
5. Acid Communism: A Haunted Utopia of Sound Anticipation and Compulsion Ghosts of Our Times Theories That Are Embodied Acid Communism
6. NON: Ultrablack Resistance Ultrablackness NON Rhythmight Ultrablack Resistance
Inconclusion: Six Heuristics for Critique and Activism Sonic Fiction as Activism Sonic Fiction as Critique Heuristics of the Sonic
Notes References Index
