Introduction: The Aural Phase
1. The Cybernetic Voice
2. The Gendered Voice
3. The Creaturely Voice
4. The Ecological Voice (Vox Mundi)
Conclusion: In Salutation of All the Voices
Dominic Pettman is Professor of Culture and Media at Eugene Lang College and The New School for Social Research. His most recent book is Infinite Distraction: Paying Attention to Social Media (2016).
"With Sonic Intimacy, we are manifestly in the hands of a skilled
and not a little playful writer who connects new media to long
developed philosophical conversations. This is a book that
catalyzes thinking as much as it documents thoughts, and its
influence should be wide and varied."—David Cecchetto, York
University
"Sonic Intimacy is a perceptive, engaging, and clever set of
meditations on a topic of increasing scholarly importance: how
sound produces human, technical, and nonhuman intimacies. Pettman's
treatment of sound across the human and nonhuman is innovative,
refreshing, and quite needed at this time."—Richard Grusin,
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
"The form and style of Pettman's book capture the character of this
roving ear, always pricking up with the possibility of another
intriguing example. Pettman is a very engaging writer, and the way
he traverses contexts and theoretical horizons is
thrilling...Pettman's writing is perhaps at its most exciting when
it ignores expectations to pin down the voices of interlocutors and
instead revels in throwing the voice, in making it seem as if it
emanates from somewhere else. Pettman himself, whose body of
writing gives the impression of an insatiable curiosity, is no
doubt already chasing down other voices and other worlds. I urge
readers, though, to let their ear linger a little longer over this
intriguing little book that promises to help us discern voices
where we least expect to hear them."—Naomi Waltham-Smith, Boundary
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