The Sonic Episteme: Acoustic Resonance, Neoliberalism, and Biopolitics

by Robin James

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1478006641

ISBN13:9781478006640

Release Date:December 2019

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:0.82 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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