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Beyond Unwanted Sound - Noise, Affect and Aesthetic Moralism (Hardcover, Paperback)
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Beyond Unwanted Sound - Noise, Affect and Aesthetic Moralism (Hardcover, Paperback)
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Noise is so often a 'stench in the ear' - an unpleasant disturbance
or an unwelcome distraction. But there is much more to noise than
what greets the ear as unwanted sound. Beyond Unwanted Sound is
about noise and how we talk about it. Weaving together affect
theory with cybernetics, media histories, acoustic ecology,
geo-politics, sonic art practices and a range of noises, Marie
Thompson critiques both the conservative politics of silence and
transgressive poetics of noise music, each of which position noise
as a negative phenomenon. Beyond Unwanted Sound instead aims to
account for a broader spectrum of noise, ranging from the
exceptional to the banal; the overwhelming to the inaudible; and
the destructive to the generative. What connects these various and
variable manifestations of noise is not negativity but affectivity.
Building on the Spinozist assertion that to exist is to be
affected, Beyond Unwanted Sound asserts that to exist is to be
affected by noise.
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