Sonic Intimacy: Voice, Species, Technics (Or, How to Listen to the World)

by Dominic Pettman

Book Overview

Sonic Intimacy asks us who--or what--deserves to have a voice, beyond the human. Arguing that our ears are far too narrowly attuned to our own species, the book explores four different types of voices: the cybernetic, the gendered, the creaturely, and the ecological. Through both a conceptual framework and a series of case studies, Dominic Pettman tracks some of the ways in which these voices intersect and interact. He demonstrates how intimacy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804799881
• ISBN13: 9780804799881
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"