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Author SiisiƤinen, Lauri

Title Foucault and the politics of hearing / Lauri SiisiƤinen
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 151 pages)
Series Interventions
Interventions (Routledge (Firm))
Contents 1. From the Empire of the Gaze to Noisy Bodies: Empirical Regimes and the Archaeology of Sound -- 2. From Panoptic to Panacoustic/Panauditory -- 3. Pastoral Power, Confession and Sexuality: Dispositives of Hearing and the "Sensualization of Power" -- 4. The Problem of Noise and the Governmentality of Sound -- 5. Music and the Politics of Friendship (Foucault and Boulez) -- 6. Voices of Multitude, Voices of Crowd: Foucault's Final Voice?
Summary The issue of the senses and sensual perception in Michel Foucault's thought has been a source of prolific discussion already for quite some time. Often, Foucault has been accused of overemphasizing the centrality of sight, and has been portrayed as yet another thinker representative of Western ocularcentricism. This innovative new work seeks to challenge this portrait by presenting an alternative view of Foucault as a thinker for whom the sound, voice, hearing, and listening, the auditory-sonorous, actually did matter. Illustrating how the auditory-sonorous relates most integrally to the most p
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 -- Political and social views
SUBJECT Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 fast
Subject Political psychology.
Hearing -- Political aspects
PHILOSOPHY -- Political.
Political and social views
Political psychology
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012001297
ISBN 9780203108567
0203108566
9781136266409
1136266402
1283586118
9781283586115
9786613898562
6613898562
Other Titles Foucault & the politics of hearing