... location of their provenance. There is a tendency to counteract the causal vagueness of many sounds by anchoring them visually. Such spatial magnetization of sounds—linking sound to source via vision—can lead to various distortions in listening. When it comes to analyzing sounds in themselves...

... Listening to Image s designates a method of recalibrating vernacular photographs as quiet practices that give us access to affective registers through which images enunciate alternate accounts of their subjects. Focusing on forms of refusal visualized through images, the book uses...