Future Sounds

The Temporality of Noise

By: Stephen Kennedy

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Hardcover | 26 July 2018

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176 Pages

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22.86 x 15.24 x 1.91

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What can the sounds of today tell us about the future? Can an analysis of sound and sonic practices allow us to make reliable predictions in relation to wider social phenomena? And what might they tell us about technology in a world where futurology is a frenzied and busy field? In order to answer these questions this book tests a range of propositions by asking how events of the recent past might have been predicted had we known then what we know now. Or, put another way, how did we get to where we are now? Hence it is a book about historical trajectories and conflicting ideas about time and the necessity to re-contextualize and interpret them in the digital age.

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For Kennedy, the algorithmic digital economy of our times is manufacturing a torrential complexity that necessitates a radical departure in our modes of critical thinking, a turn that seeks not simply to elevate the sonic to the status of the visual but, rather, to deploy a pansonic mode of engagement. The political project here is clear: we need to attend to this complexity rather than abdicate responsibility of its meanings to automated algorithmic selection, perceptual coding, cloaking technologies and noise filtering processes. We need not only to bring the noise but to turn it up. Think of this not as an analysis but rather a clarion call from the future anterior of music that demands that we listen in the full knowledge that we may well not yet know what to do in the face of the noise that we hear.
Greg Hainge, Professor of French, University of Queensland, Australia

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