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Shattering Biopolitics - Militant Listening and the Sound of Life (Hardcover)
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Shattering Biopolitics - Militant Listening and the Sound of Life (Hardcover)
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A missed phone call. A misheard word. An indiscernible noise. All
these can make the difference between life and death. Failures to
listen are frequently at the root of the marginalization and
exclusion of certain forms of life. Audibility decides livability.
Shattering Biopolitics elaborates for the first time the intimate
and complex relation between life and sound in recent European
philosophy, as well as the political stakes of this entanglement.
Nowhere is aurality more pivotal than in the dialogue between
biopolitical theory and deconstruction about the power over and of
life. Closer inspection of these debates reveals that the main
points of contention coalesce around figures of sound and
listening: inarticulate voices, meaningless sounds, resonant
echoes, syncopated rhythms, animal cries, bells, and telephone
rings. Shattering Biopolitics stages a series of "over-hearings"
between Jacques Derrida and Giorgio Agamben who often mishear or
completely miss hearing in trying to hear too much. Notions of
power and life are further diffracted as Helene Cixous, Catherine
Malabou, and Jean-Luc Nancy join in this high-stakes game of
telephone. This self-destructive character of aurality is akin to
the chanciness and risk of death that makes life all the more alive
for its incalculability. Punctuating the book are a series of
excurses on sound-art projects that interrogate aurality's
subordination and resistance to biopower from racialized chokeholds
and anti-migrant forensic voice analysis to politicized speech acts
and activist practices of listening. Shattering Biopolitics
advances the burgeoning field of sound studies with a new,
theoretically sophisticated analysis of the political imbrications
of its object of inquiry. Above all, it is sound's capacity to
shatter sovereignty, as if it were a glass made to vibrate at its
natural frequency, that allows it to amplify and disseminate a
power of life that refuses to be mastered.
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