BEYOND UNWANTED SOUND/ NOISE, AFFECT AND AESTHETIC MORALISM

Beyond Unwanted Sound is about noise and how we talk about it. Weaving together affect theory with cybernetics, media histories, aco ustic ecology, geo-politics, sonic art practices and a range of noises, Marie Thompson critiques both the conservative politics of s ilence and transgressive poetics of noise music, each of which position noise as a negative phenomenon. Beyond Unwanted Sound instea d aims to account for a broader spectrum of noise, ranging from the exceptional to the banal/ the overwhelming to the inaudible/ and the des...[Llegir més]