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How is space made in sound? Spatial mediation, critical phenomenology and the political agency of sound

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ID8079682
AuthorsGeorge Revill (0000-0002-7004-4960, The Open University, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume40
Issue2
Pages240-256
Publication date2015-02-22
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueProgress in Human Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0309-1325 • E-ISSN: 1477-0288
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0309132515572271
OpenAlexW2079177827
LanguageEN
Citations received78
References cited65

This paper examines some of the processes and practices that make sonic spatiality distinctive and sets out theoretical and conceptual resources that might better enable us to understand these processes. It draws on the notion of political agency in order to animate the processual making of sonic space as socio-material relationality. Developing an approach to sonic mediation compatible with a critical phenomenology of the auditory, the paper sets out four interrelated sets of sonic effects central to the making of sonic spaces. It shows how these address a politics of difference which engages affective and representational political processes

Acoustics · Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Epistemology · Linguistics · Mediation · Phenomenology (philosophy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Sound (geography · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Music History and Culture · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism

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