Thresholds of Listening : : Sound, Technics, Space / / ed. by Sander van Maas.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Adler, Anthony Curtis,; Freeman, Jason,; Hamilton, John T.,; Kramer, Lawrence,; Kromhout, Melle Jan,; Plate, Liedeke,; Rehding, Alexander,; Shenton, Andrew,; Sholl, Robert,; Szendy, Peter,; Wills, David,; Wurth, Kiene Brillenburg,; van Maas, Sander,
• HerausgeberIn: Maas, Sander van,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (324 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; Introduction --; 1. The Auditory Re-Turn (The Point of Listening) --; 2. "Dear Listener . . .": Music and the Invention of Subjectivity --; 3. Scenes of Devastation: Interpellation, Finite and Infi nite --; 4. Positive Feedback: Listening behind Hearing --; 5. "Antennas Have Long Since Invaded Our Brains" --; 6. Movement at the Boundaries of Listening, Composition, and Performance --; 7. The Biopolitics of Noise: Kafka's "Der Bau" --; 8. Torture as an Instrument of Music --; 9. Stop It, I Like It! --; 10. Sounds of Belonging --; 11. Back to the Beat --; 12. The Discovery of Slowness in Music --; 13. Negotiating Ecstasy --; NOTES --; CONTRIBUTORS --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780823264407; 9783110729030
• DOI: 10.1515/9780823264407?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Sander van Maas.

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.