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Thanatosonics: Ontologies of Acoustic Violence

J. Martin Daughtry
Social Text (2014) 32 (2 (119)): 25–51.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2419546
Published: 01 June 2014
... between sound and violence, taking advantage of ontological similarities that render violence public and diffuse. In so doing, thanatosonic regimes serve as metonyms for the full-spectrum sensory assault of combat; instruments of (acoustic and other forms of) violence; and instantiations of the kind...
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Thick Whisper and Thin Victory: Concentration Camps’ Contribution to Modern Acoustics

Rudolf Mrázek
Social Text (2015) 33 (1 (122)): 1–25.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2831844
Published: 01 March 2015
...Rudolf Mrázek This essay explores the acoustic regime of two twentieth-century internment camps: Boven Digoel (1927–43), in the Dutch East Indies, and Terezín or Theresienstadt (1942–45), in the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, today the Czech Republic. Based on archival materials...
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Spiritual Attunement: Pentecostal Radio in the Soundscape of a Favela in Rio de Janeiro

Martijn Oosterbaan
Social Text (2008) 26 (3 (96)): 123–145.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2008-007
Published: 01 September 2008
...Martijn Oosterbaan This article explores the ways in which Pentecostal media, especially electro-acoustic media, are integrated in the everyday life of a favela in Rio de Janeiro. It argues that the popularity of Pentecostal radio has to be understood in relation to the sociocultural meaning...
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Sound, Knowledge, and the “Immanence of Human Failure”: Rethinking Musical Mechanization through the Phonograph, the Player-Piano, and the Piano

David Suisman
Social Text (2010) 28 (1 (102)): 13–34.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2009-058
Published: 01 March 2010
...David Suisman This article reframes the history of recorded sound to take phonographs and player-pianos into account on more or less equal terms. It argues that the two technologies developed in complementary, dialectical relation to each other: one analog, storing and conveying an acoustic event...
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Deaf Jam: From Inscription to Reproduction to Information

Mara Mills
Social Text (2010) 28 (1 (102)): 35–58.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2009-059
Published: 01 March 2010
... thing, the machine was modeled not on the middle but on the inner ear, which seemed to dissect sound into simpler wave components, along the lines of Fourier analysis. Rather than represent an acoustic waveform, spectrograms thus depicted its...
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Atmospheric Sensibilities: Noise, Annoyance, and Indefinite Urbanism

Marina Peterson
Social Text (2017) 35 (2 (131)): 69–90.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3820545
Published: 01 June 2017
... article. Research was supported by a Huntington Library fellowship. 1 Connor, Matter of Air ; Lewis, Air’s Appearance . See also Adey, Aerial Life ; Anderson, “Affective Atmospheres” ; Böhme, “Atmosphere of a City” ; Böhme, “Acoustic Atmospheres” ; Choy, “Air’s Substantiations...
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Splicing the Sonic Color-Line: Tony Schwartz Remixes Postwar Nueva York

Jennifer Stoever-Ackerman
Social Text (2010) 28 (1 (102)): 59–85.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2009-060
Published: 01 March 2010
... and essential causes. When zoning laws and other forms of citizen activism failed to keep the noises of the city at bay, wealthier whites sought a private solution “by turning inward and creating acoustically efficient refuge from the noises of public life...
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The Daughter's Exchange in Jane Jeong Trenka's The Language of Blood

Eun Kyung Min
Social Text (2008) 26 (1 (94)): 115–133.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2007-022
Published: 01 March 2008
.... 28. Kaja Silverman, The Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988), 157. 29. Sigmund Freud, “Mourning and Melancholia,” in The Standard Edition of the Complete...
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Sound and Movement: Vernaculars of Sonic Dissent

Benjamin Tausig
Social Text (2018) 36 (3 (136)): 25–45.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-6917754
Published: 01 September 2018
... protesters, glowed underfoot. As the choir’s performance haltingly began, it was clear that Red Sunday would be acoustically dwarfed by the greater protest event. Despite the Thai government’s recent emergency decree, which restricted amplification at political gatherings, protesters had brought impromptu...
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Time and Girmit

Sudesh Mishra
Social Text (2005) 23 (1 (82)): 15–36.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-23-1_82-15
Published: 01 March 2005
..., for it takes over at that extreme and exhaustive frontier where agreement withholds its name for fear of losing it. To retain a discernible degree of semantic, acoustic, and graphic integrity, agreement may not, and dare not, venture beyond a certain sphere of signifi cation; it is precisely...
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On Stalling and Turning: A Wayward Genealogy for a Binary-Abolitionist Public Toilet Project

Susan Stryker
Social Text (2021) 39 (3 (148)): 37–54.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9034432
Published: 01 September 2021
..., and hygiene; and supplies a complementary background color for deaf signing because it contrasts with skin tones. Locating the toilet stalls into consolidated rows at the back of the facility offers the greatest possible acoustic and visual privacy for acts of eliminating bodily waste. Each stall has...
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From Shame to Drive : The Waning of Affect; or, The Rising of the Drive Image in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

Sulgi Lie
Social Text (2016) 34 (2 (127)): 45–70.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3467966
Published: 01 June 2016
..., a desire to desire. In one of the many acoustic mise-en-abyme moments of the film, Irene’s desire finds its musical expression in the “Under Your Spell” song of the band Desire, in which the lyrics seem to ask the driver: “Do you know the difference between obsession and desire?” In asking this question...
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Punk’s Afterlife in Cantina Time

Deborah R. Vargas
Social Text (2013) 31 (3 (116)): 57–73.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2152837
Published: 01 September 2013
... in Cantina Time of time in the space of the cantina keep the pasts ongoing: in the furniture that is never replaced but held together by electrical tape, in the stage space that is never remodeled, in the acoustic technology that is never updated. Time drags in the cantina space. When considering...
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Introduction: Media and the Political Forms of Religion

Charles Hirschkind, Brian Larkin
Social Text (2008) 26 (3 (96)): 1–9.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2000-001
Published: 01 September 2008
... from CD- and tape-players constitutes the acoustic architecture of a 6 Hirschkind and Larkin • Introduction heterogeneous moral and political space, materially defining the boundar- ies and shapes of the built environment as much as do walls, streets, and buildings...
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Enemy Voice

Jonathan Sterne
Social Text (2008) 26 (3 (96)): 79–100.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2008-005
Published: 01 September 2008
... who persuades an audience, to a trace, an artifact that operates in the world of mediated politics. But I must temper that desire and so should you. The voice-as-exteriority formation is at least two hundred years old. Both the fields of acoustics...
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Punk and Its Afterlives: Introduction

Jayna Brown, Patrick Deer, Tavia Nyong’o
Social Text (2013) 31 (3 (116)): 1–11.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2152900
Published: 01 September 2013
... a while to emerge; it was only later in the extraordinary first year of Occupy that the “guitar army” became more central to its activities and demonstrations, and then as a deliberately retro and low-­tech acoustic phenomenon.7 The core...
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Siphoning and Sabotage: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and US Electricity Theft

Sage Gerson
Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 125–151.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-10013346
Published: 01 December 2022
.... There is a certain acoustical deadness in my hole, and when I have music I want to feel its vibration, not only with my ear but with my whole body. I'd like to hear five recordings of Louis Armstrong playing and singing ‘What did I Do to Be so Black and Blue’—all at the same time.” 47 Creative practice links...
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Every Move You Make: Bodies, Surveillance, and Media

Michael J. Shapiro
Social Text (2005) 23 (2 (83)): 21–34.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-23-2_83-21
Published: 01 June 2005
..., which is “the intelligible side.”4 It was the fi rst side that proved fatal. While the Ephraimite participation in the conversations worked as mutual intelligibility, their inability to make the precisely correct sounds doomed them. Anatomically speaking, in shaping the acoustics of the word...
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The Visual Frequency of Black Life: Love, Labor, and the Practice of Refusal

Tina M. Campt
Social Text (2019) 37 (3): 25–46.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-758503
Published: 01 September 2019
...) is conscripted by racialized capitalism. Refining my initial questions into a less subtle iteration: What kind of affective labor is demanded by visual representations of imperiled black life? What kinds of image-making practices make this labor visible? frequency: In acoustics, the number...
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Tricky and the Bug: Dub, Punk, and the Abject

Jayna Brown
Social Text (2013) 31 (3 (116)): 75–93.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2152846
Published: 01 September 2013
... on the development of sonic capabilities through militarized technologies, and on sound and frequency’s military uses. He thinks about acoustic weaponry in relation to the music of the club. What he calls “audiosocial radiation” operates on a continuum, between, say, a sonic bomb and a good rave: “Extensive...
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