Political Possibility of Sound

<p>The essay is the perfect format for a crisis. Its porous and contingent nature forgives a lack of formality while its neglect of perfection and virtuosity releases the potential for the incomplete and the unrealizable. These seven essays on <i>The Political Possibility of Sound</i> present a perfectly incomplete form for a discussion on the possibility of the political that includes creativity and invention and articulates a politics that imagines transformation and the desire to embrace a connected and collaborative world. <p/>The themes of these essays emerge from and deepen discussions started in Voegelin's previous books <i>Listening to Noise and Silence</i> and <i>Sonic Possible Worlds</i>. Continuing the methodological juxtaposition of phenomenology and logic and writing from close sonic encounters each represents a fragment of listening to a variety of sound works to music the acoustic environment and to poetry to hear their possibilities and develop words for what appears impossible. <p/>As fragments of writing they respond to ideas on geography and migration bring into play formless subjectivities and trans-objective identities and practice collectivity and a sonic cosmopolitanism through the hearing of shared volumes. They involve the unheard and the in-between to contribute to current discussions on new materialism and perform vertical readings to reach the depth of sound.</p>