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...Mara Mills The “hearing glove” presumably invented by Norbert Wiener has been relegated to a footnote in most histories of cybernetics. This article surveys the long history of the hearing glove concept, arguing the significance of this and related speech technologies to the definitions...

... of exile suggests that we hear thinking through the liveliness of language. Intellectuality, even in its most arrogant manifestations, does not prevent or mask the anxiety of living in a new language. Von Trotta’s Arendt speaks from multiple levels of anxiety when she explains that her need to answer all...

... relationship of the emerging field of sound studies to Descartes’s views of the sense of hearing. Descartes’s acoustic studies and anatomical work on the fetus reveal a persistent concern with resonance. But instead of subsuming resonance and its rich metaphorical field (which comprises vibration, sympathy...

...Alexander R. Galloway The politics of math are of newfound concern today, due to the outsize influence of algorithms and code in contemporary life. While only a few years ago, tech authors were still hawking Silicon Valley as the great hope for humanity, today one is more likely to hear how Big...

... and classifications require and enroll sonic technology of various kinds. Modes of hearing are thus embodied and exteriorized in new ways, and the automated ear and the supplemented machine may figure, not necessarily on opposite sides, in sonically articulated struggles for space. This article explores a series...

...Gertrud Koch The music video poses several questions in which the ordering of the senses becomes central: What does it mean to show a singing body, a close-up of a singer and her body parts (her open mouth, her hands, her lips, etc.)? Does the music video emphasize sight over hearing by becoming...

... in the Time of aids There is no absolute ear; the problem the sensory-sensual—of speech, of the is to have an impossible one—making voice, of smell, of hearing. In short, of audible forces that are not audible in the non-visual...

... the reader’s loss. A year later, in “Le Mot d’accueil,” the tone is quite different: “The miracle of the trace [. . .] allows us to read him today and to hear his voice resonate so it can signify to us” (132; 71). Derrida...

... listening violence Who is giving an account to whom? This is a question I hear when I read Judith Butler’s Giving an Account of Oneself . Despite the use of the preposition “of” in the title, which seems to make oneself the object not only of an address but of the book, Butler emphasizes how...

... intently with custom software objects. As she clicks a slider on the interface, the sound is transformed. Elsewhere, an automated switch system connects two wireless phone calls. A hard-of-hearing caller puts the mobile phone to his ear and experiences distracting static as it inter - acts...

... but myself would hear it; it is true, I hear it now more and more distinctly, for my ear has grown keener through practice; though in reality it is exactly the same noise wherever I may hear it, as I...

..., the “ended life.” Auditory parallax offers a double hearing of these differing conceptions of what it means to read. In Butler, as in Hegel, the stakes of reading are life and its dialectical perversion, death. In Foucault something slightly different happens. He extends a strange, often frightening love...

... strength, he himself is, according to Horkheimer and Adorno, “bound impotently to the mast” (34) like a prisoner. If Odysseus can hear the Sirens’ songs, he is also immobilized, whereas the oarsmen, precisely because they cannot hear...

..., Jacques Rancière, and Jacques Lacan, among others. Abramson, Jill. “Reversal of Fortune: Image of Anita Hill,Brighter in Hindsight, Galvanizes Campaigns; A Year after Hearings, She Inspires Many Women to Challenge Incumbents; More Voters Believe Her Now.” Wall Street Journal 5 Oct. 1992 : A1...

... and Feminine Jouissance1 RENATA SALECL men we hear the sound of a siren, we immediately think, "Danger!" or maybe even, "Death!" During wartime, the codified signal of sirens warns of enemy attacks, and during peacetime, sirens alert people to fires or medical emergencies. In some countries, sirens are also...

... of Minnesota P , 2007 . Silverman Kaja . The Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema . Bloomington : Indiana UP , 1988 . Soul Coughing . “ Screenwriter’s Blues .” Ruby Vroom . Slash Records and Warner Brothers Records , 1994 . Storrs Carina . “ People Hear...

... fidelity helps us make sense of identity, reproduction, and hearing itself. Phonographic Fidelity Before turning back to the re-enacting piano, it is crucial to place it in the context...

... Digital Humanities Mean Transformative Critique? ” Journal of E-Media Studies 3.1 ( 2013 ). http://journals.dartmouth.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Journals.woa/xmlpage/4/article/425 ( accessed 23 July 2013 ). McCormick Tim . “ If You Can’t Hear Anything Nice, Don’t Hear Anything: Robustness vs...

... even hear them at all. In other words, these experimental processes produce aesthetic damage. This damage refracts patriarchal wrongs back into the system, disrupting it and triggering its reconstitution into a new paradigm...

...-approaching practice that this improvisation sounds. 4i This text, which was always talk, comes out of a symposium, The Nicknames of Distortion: A Hortense Spillers Symposium, coorganized by Tara Holman, Christopher Lasasso, Kiran Saili, and Semilore Sobande; flows out of the panel “‘Learning to Hear...