Sonic Intimacy: Voice, Species, Technics (or, How To Listen to the World)

"A perceptive, engaging, and clever set of meditations on . . . how sound produces human, technical, and nonhuman intimacies." —Richard Grusin,University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Sonic Intimacy asks us who—or what—deserves 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...