Salomé Voegelin
Bloomsbury Academic 2019
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The essay is the perfect format for a crisis. Its porous and contingent nature forgives a lack of formality, while its neglect of perfection and virtuosity releases the potential for the incomplete and the unrealizable. These seven essays on The Political Possibility of Sound present a perfectly incomplete form for a discussion on the possibility of the political that includes creativity and invention, and articulates a politics that imagines transformation and the desire to embrace a connected and collaborative world.
The themes of these essays emerge from and deepen discussions started in Voegelin’s previous books, Listening to Noise and Silence and Sonic Possible Worlds. Continuing the methodological juxtaposition of phenomenology and logic and writing from close sonic encounters each represents a fragment of listening to a variety of sound works, to music, the acoustic environment and to poetry, to hear their possibilities and develop words for what appears impossible.
As fragments of writing they respond to ideas on geography and migration, bring into play formless subjectivities and trans-objective identities, and practice collectivity and a sonic cosmopolitanism through the hearing of shared volumes. They involve the unheard and the in-between to contribute to current discussions on new materialism, and perform vertical readings to reach the depth of sound.
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a ver, un poco trampa que diga que lo he acabado de leer porque en realidad lo he tenido que dejar de leer después de varios intentos porque no entendía ni una sola frase que estaba leyendo. y ojalá tener un inglés nativo para estas cosas porque seguro que estaba genial pero es que también siento que ya es hora de que lxs académicxs empiecen a hacer libros más accesibles para gente que no es nativa ni en inglés ni en El Idioma de La Academia.
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