dis/cord Thinking Sound through Agential Realism

• Main Author: Toksöz Fairbairn, Kevin
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Brooklyn, NY punctum books 2022
• Subjects: agential realism;artistic research;embodiment;Karen Barad;new materialism;noise;sound studies; Book Industry Communication; Humanities; Music; Philosophy; Philosophy and Religion; Philosophy: aesthetics; The Arts; thema EDItEUR; Theory of music & musicology; Theory of music and musicology; Topics in philosophy

dis/cord is an experiment in reading sound. Embarking from Karen Barad’s early work on agential realism, it diffracts quantum physics through sound art, finding the sympathetic resonances that allow them to speak together. dis/cord believes in the materialism of sound, and strives not to understand...