SONIC INTIMACY

Sonic Intimacy asks us whoor whatdeserves 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 in tersect and interact. He demonstrates how intimacy is forged through the ear, perhaps even more than through any other sense, mode, or medium. ...[Read more]