The Sonic Episteme

Acoustic Resonance, Neoliberalism, and Biopolitics

Robin James (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2019
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0578-0 (ISBN)

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In The Sonic Episteme 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. Drawing on fields ranging from philosophy and sound studies to black feminist studies and musicology, James shows how what she calls the sonic episteme—a set of sound-based rules that qualitatively structure social practices in much the same way that neoliberalism uses statistics—employs a politics of exception to maintain hegemonic neoliberal and biopolitical projects. Where James sees the normcore averageness of Taylor Swift and Spandau Ballet as contributing to the sonic episteme's marginalization of nonnormative conceptions of gender, race, and personhood, the black feminist political ontologies she identifies in Beyoncé's and Rihanna's music challenge such marginalization. In using sound to theorize political ontology, subjectivity, and power, James argues for the further articulation of sonic practices that avoid contributing to the systemic relations of domination that biopolitical neoliberalism creates and polices.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	14.11.2019
Zusatzinfo	1 illustration
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4780-0578-5 / 1478005785
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-0578-0 / 9781478005780
Zustand	Neuware