The Sonic Episteme
Acoustic Resonance, Neoliberalism, and Biopolitics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8086394 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robin James (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Pages | 245 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Reviewed by | The sonic episteme: Acoustic resonance, neoliberalism, and biopolitics, Malcolm Collier, 2020 |
| Venue | The sonic episteme (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1515/9781478007371 |
| OpenAlex | W3003770302 |
| Open Library | OL28758163M |
| ISBN | 9781478007371 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 35 |
In The Sonic Episteme Robin James examines how twenty-first-century conceptions of sound as acoustic resonance shape notions of the social world, personhood, and materiality in ways that support white supremacist capitalist patriarchy. Drawing on fields ranging from philosophy and sound studies to black feminist studies and musicology, James shows how what she calls the sonic episteme--a set of sound-based rules that qualitatively structure social practices in much the same way neoliberalism uses statistics to achieve similar ends--employs a politics of exception to maintain hegemonic neoliberal and biopolitical projects. Where James sees the normcore averageness of Taylor Swift and Spandau Ballet as contributing to the sonic episteme's marginalization of non-normative conceptions of gender, race, and personhood, the black feminist political ontologies she identifies in Beyoncé's and Rihanna's music challenge such marginalization. In using sound to theorize political ontology, subjectivity, and power, James argues for the further articulation of sonic practices that avoid contributing to the systemic relations of domination that biopolitical neoliberalism creates and polices
Acoustic resonance · Atomic physics · Biopower · Episteme · Epistemology · Neoliberalism (international relations · Physics · Political science · Politics · Resonance (particle physics · Social science · Sociology · Diverse Musicological Studies · Music History and Culture · Philosophy · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · 21st century · Biopolitik · History · Music · Musik · Musikphilosophie · Neoliberalismus · Political aspects · Social aspects · Law
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| Unique citing works | 31 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 32 |