Sonic Epistemologies: Confrontations with the Invisible
With reference to Steven Feld’s “acoustemology,” his epistemology of sounding and listening, developed in the Bosavi Rainforest in Papua New Guinea, where the trees are too dense to afford a distant view and meaning has to be found up close, on the body with other human and more-than-human bodies, t...
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| description | With reference to Steven Feld’s “acoustemology,” his epistemology of sounding and listening, developed in the Bosavi Rainforest in Papua New Guinea, where the trees are too dense to afford a distant view and meaning has to be found up close, on the body with other human and more-than-human bodies, this essay deliberates how sound knows in entanglements and from the in-between: in a being with as a knowing with rather than from a distance. In this way, this essay, from the densities of the rainforest, critiques Western knowledge and its reliance on visual categories, straight lines, and universalising principles that pretend objectivity and a distant view. Instead, it turns to the relational indivisibility of sound that lets us hear interdependencies and confronts us with the invisible of which we are part. In conclusion, it proposes that sound studies as applied, transversal studies enable such a paradigm shift that at once reveals what hegemonic knowledge strands exclude and invites a different dialogue from the in-between of everything. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-87aa3184bf35443bbe31f8a17993673a2024-04-15T07:42:16ZengDe GruyterOpen Philosophy2543-88752024-04-01718013110.1515/opphil-2024-0002Sonic Epistemologies: Confrontations with the InvisibleVoegelin Salomé0Department of CRiSAP, University of the Arts London, London, United KingdomWith reference to Steven Feld’s “acoustemology,” his epistemology of sounding and listening, developed in the Bosavi Rainforest in Papua New Guinea, where the trees are too dense to afford a distant view and meaning has to be found up close, on the body with other human and more-than-human bodies, this essay deliberates how sound knows in entanglements and from the in-between: in a being with as a knowing with rather than from a distance. In this way, this essay, from the densities of the rainforest, critiques Western knowledge and its reliance on visual categories, straight lines, and universalising principles that pretend objectivity and a distant view. Instead, it turns to the relational indivisibility of sound that lets us hear interdependencies and confronts us with the invisible of which we are part. In conclusion, it proposes that sound studies as applied, transversal studies enable such a paradigm shift that at once reveals what hegemonic knowledge strands exclude and invites a different dialogue from the in-between of everything.https://doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2024-0002listeningrelationalitytransversal sound studiesmultisensoryfeministdecolonialintersectional approaches |
| spellingShingle | Voegelin Salomé Sonic Epistemologies: Confrontations with the Invisible Open Philosophy listening relationality transversal sound studies multisensory feminist decolonial intersectional approaches |
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| title_sort | sonic epistemologies confrontations with the invisible |
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