Nicholas Anderman
Biographic Data
| ID | 7705385 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Anderman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | Anderman |
| SIGNATURE | ANDERMAN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5299-7154 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Paranoid space
At the contiguous ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, dockworkers frequently deploy conspiracy theories to explain the securitized, containerized, and automated spaces in which they live and work. Contra extant explanations of conspiracy theory as irrational, deviant, or simply shoddy epistemology, this article argues that longshore paranoia should be taken seriously as an expressive form of political critique and spatial praxis. Drawing on 16 m…
Tropicana, Tropicana, Tropicana
This conversation with the poet, scholar, and theorist Fred Moten begins with the proposition that sound blurs easy distinctions between matter and thought. In this way, sound provides an opening to what Moten calls “moments of disruption, of going off the track, of accident, of rupture, of breakage.” Cacophonous sounds have long served to orient and ground Moten’s analysis of the interplay between power, blackness, and aesthetic practice. Buildi…
On Sound
This introduction to the special dossier proposes a way of thinking with sound that foregrounds its relational, embodied, and historically situated nature. Rejecting both sonic abstraction and disciplinary overdetermination, the authors advocate for a polyvocal, politically engaged sound studies. The introduction concludes with a brief overview of the contributions that follow
Deep-sea sound system
Since the 1970s, oceanographers have used underwater sound to measure ocean heat by means of a scientific technique called acoustic tomography (AT). This article historicizes AT, arguing that both the technique itself and the climatic knowledge it produces propagate colonial, military and capitalist pursuits that are to blame for oceanic warming in the first place. The argument plays out in four parts. Part one situates AT in relation to the disc…
The Pot Still Boils
This special-issue introduction historicizes and seeks to move beyond the antinomy between totality and culture that is today a mainstay of much contemporary critical theory. The introduction proceeds in three parts. The first examines a midcentury crisis of Marxism that, concomitant with major shifts in global capitalism, set the scene for subsequent scholarly accounts of culture that have privileged the fragment, the supplement, the remainder, …
Notes on Oceanic Pharmacology
Recent oceanographic research indicates that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), one of the earth’s major oceanic circulatory systems, has begun to weaken rapidly. Should the system continue to slow, it will have potentially devastating consequences for climatic negentropy. Given this situation, the world ocean might be understood as a vast, watery pharmakon: a material space of ambivalent effects, yielding up both life and de…
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Notes on Oceanic Pharmacology
Recent oceanographic research indicates that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), one of the earth’s major oceanic circulatory systems, has begun to weaken rapidly. Should the system continue to slow, it will have potentially devastating consequences for climatic negentropy. Given this situation, the world ocean might be understood as a vast, watery pharmakon: a material space of ambivalent effects, yielding up both life and de…
The Pot Still Boils
This special-issue introduction historicizes and seeks to move beyond the antinomy between totality and culture that is today a mainstay of much contemporary critical theory. The introduction proceeds in three parts. The first examines a midcentury crisis of Marxism that, concomitant with major shifts in global capitalism, set the scene for subsequent scholarly accounts of culture that have privileged the fragment, the supplement, the remainder, …
Deep-sea sound system
Since the 1970s, oceanographers have used underwater sound to measure ocean heat by means of a scientific technique called acoustic tomography (AT). This article historicizes AT, arguing that both the technique itself and the climatic knowledge it produces propagate colonial, military and capitalist pursuits that are to blame for oceanic warming in the first place. The argument plays out in four parts. Part one situates AT in relation to the disc…
Tropicana, Tropicana, Tropicana
This conversation with the poet, scholar, and theorist Fred Moten begins with the proposition that sound blurs easy distinctions between matter and thought. In this way, sound provides an opening to what Moten calls “moments of disruption, of going off the track, of accident, of rupture, of breakage.” Cacophonous sounds have long served to orient and ground Moten’s analysis of the interplay between power, blackness, and aesthetic practice. Buildi…
On Sound
This introduction to the special dossier proposes a way of thinking with sound that foregrounds its relational, embodied, and historically situated nature. Rejecting both sonic abstraction and disciplinary overdetermination, the authors advocate for a polyvocal, politically engaged sound studies. The introduction concludes with a brief overview of the contributions that follow
Paranoid space
At the contiguous ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, dockworkers frequently deploy conspiracy theories to explain the securitized, containerized, and automated spaces in which they live and work. Contra extant explanations of conspiracy theory as irrational, deviant, or simply shoddy epistemology, this article argues that longshore paranoia should be taken seriously as an expressive form of political critique and spatial praxis. Drawing on 16 m…
Discipline (2 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (2 works) · Music History and Culture (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Sound (geography (2 works) · Sound Studies and Aurality (2 works) · Abstraction (1 work) · Active listening (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Antinomy (1 work)