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Towards an Inhuman Critique of Represent
"Towards an Inhuman Critique of Represent" treats sound as force, showing how vibration, sonic fiction, or acoustic design reorganize affective and political space.
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Core idea
These texts argue that sound is not mere accompaniment to culture. Vibration, bass, and auditory design act directly on bodies, spaces, and publics, making sonic theory a theory of force.
They work by turning acoustics into logistics, atmosphere into pressure, and listening into environmental relation. Sonic fiction and sonic warfare describe how sound reorganizes situations before it is interpreted.
That matters because the section is trying to surface the archive's strongest account of affective mediation. Audio culture becomes a way of thinking force, mood, and coordination together.
How to read this text
Read for how the page moves from music or noise toward vibration, pressure, or environmental effect.
Keep an eye on where listening becomes spatial or political. Those moments usually carry the page's strongest claims.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 1
A festival that looks at how sound generates meaning through interaction, how the sonic arts can be both physical and eqpegrvwcn"cpf"jqy"ctvkuvu"etgcvg"pgy"oqfgnu"cpf"tgeqpÝiwtcvkqpu"qh"vjg"yqtnf"yg"nkxg"kp"vjtqwij" vjgkt"ctvkuvke"rtcevkeg0"Yjcv"uvctvgf"cu"c"hguvkxcn"qh"urqpvcpgqwu"owuke"cpf"gzrgtkogpvcn"Ýno"jcu" become a festival of arts with a sonic focus.
Definition · paragraph 101
Modern subjectivity, forged in the cool climes of Kantian critique and Enlightenment tcvkqpcnkv{."tgrtgugpvu"vjg"qdlgev"d{"rcuukpi"kv"vjtqwij"vjg"uwdlgev0"Kv"ku"kp"vjku"yc{"vjcv"Mcpv"Ýtuv"ugvu"kp" place the epistemological limit that would outlaw metaphysics - that is - by installing a representational one.
Definition · paragraph 113
He is currently working on a book tentatively entitled That Which is Not. Andrew Brooks Andrew Brooks is an artist and curator who lives in Sydney. He is interested in conceptual approaches to the sonic arts and works with performance, music and installations.
Stakes · paragraph 74
4 As Anthony Iles mentioned to me while reading this text, they did not want to be thought as “softies” or “hippies,” so they went for the most authoritarian branch of leftist politics at the time! 5 Tony Conrad, “LYssophobia: On Four Violins,” in Audio Culture, 316. 6 Cornelius Cardew, “Towards an Ethic of Improvisation” *3;93+."kp"Cornelius Cardew (1936–1981): A Reader, ed.
History · paragraph 74
5 Tony Conrad, “LYssophobia: On Four Violins,” in Audio Culture, 316. 6 Cornelius Cardew, “Towards an Ethic of Improvisation” *3;93+."kp"Cornelius Cardew (1936–1981): A Reader, ed. Edwin Prévost (Harlow: Copula Press, 2008), 126.
Appears in sections
Sonic Futures and Audio Theory Primary section
Jungle, Hyperdub, sonic warfare, and the sound-centered pathways into the archive's theory culture.