James The Sonic Episteme

Acoustic Resonance, Neoliberalism, and Biopolitics
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0737-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Robin James examines how twenty-first-century conceptions of sound as acoustic resonance shape notions of the social world, personhood, and materiality in ways that support white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

James, Robin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1. Neoliberal Noise and the Biopolitics of (Un)Cool: Acoustic Resonance as Political Economy 23
2. Universal Envoicement: Acoustic Resonance as Political Ontology 51
3. Vibration and Diffraction: Acoustic Resonance as Materialist Ontology 87
4. Neoliberal Sophrosyne: Acoustic Resonance as Subjectivity and Personhood 126
5. Social Physics and Quantum Physics: Acoustic Resonance as the Model for a "Harmonious" World 158
Conclusion 181
Notes 185
Bibliography 227
Index 239

Über Autor(innen)

Robin James is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and author of Resilience and Melancholy: Pop Music, Feminism, Neoliberalism and The Conjectural Body: Gender, Race, and the Philosophy of Music.