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Thresholds of Listening - Sound, Technics, Space (Hardcover)
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Thresholds of Listening - Sound, Technics, Space (Hardcover)
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Thresholds of Listening addresses recent and historical changes in
the ways listening has been conceived. Listening, having been
emancipated from the passive, subjected position of reception, has
come to be asserted as an active force in culture and in collective
and individual politics. The contributors to this volume show that
the exteriorization of listening- brought into relief by recent
historical studies of technologies of listening-involves a
re-negotiation of the theoretical and pragmatic distinctions that
underpin the notion of listening. Focusing on the manifold
borderlines between listening and its erstwhile others, such as
speaking, reading, touching, seeing, or hearing, the book maps new
frontiers in the history of aurality. They suggest that listening's
finitude- defined in some of the essays as its death or
deadliness-should be considered as a heuristic instrument rather
than as a mere descriptor. Listening emerges where it appears to
end or to run up against thresholds and limits-or when it takes
unexpected turns. Listening's recent emergence on the cultural and
theoretical scene may therefore be productively read against
contemporary recurrences of the motifs of elusiveness, finitude,
and resistance to open up new politics, discourses, and
technologies of aurality.
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