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Tuning Speculation: Experimental Aesthetics and the Sonic Imaginary

Tuning Speculation: Experimental Aesthetics and the Sonic Imaginary  (Deadline Extended — 15 July 2013) A two-day conference hosted by the Department of Art and Art History at York University in…
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(UN)SOUND OCCUPATION – A four-evening workshop on Sound and Politics

Here are the details for an upcoming event that features members of The Occulture: Asounder and the Free’scool are inviting you to participate in a series of workshops—(un)sound occupation—to be…
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Preemptive Glossary for a Techno-Sonic Control Society (with lines of flight) Pt. 3

(PART ONE / PART TWO) PSYCHEDELIC ADJACENCIES are generated via the strategic imbrication of overtly incongruent but subliminally (genetically) congenial signals. Such formations are inevitably spawned within a colloidal dispersion…
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Preemptive Glossary for a Techno-Sonic Control Society (with lines of flight) Pt. 2

(Part One here) PRIMERS: Pre-Internet earworm distribution system. The outcome of research carried out in the mid-1990s within an institution of higher learning (in a major Canadian city) involving the…
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Performance and Enaction in Writing Sonic Materialities OR The writing of having written: writing about (writing about) sound

I'm working on something like a "position paper" for an upcoming roundtable where participants are asked to consider how their writing engages the materiality of sound. I'd love any comments…
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Preemptive Glossary for a Techno-Sonic Control Society (with lines of flight) Pt. 1

The following provides a first attempt at devising terminological coordinates to apprehend the complex entanglements of sound, technology, and control. In addition to the foregrounding / delimiting / naming function…
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Anantiphon

Levi Bryant's August 2010 post about "Experimental Metaphysics" was brought to my attention the other day via an NYC yoga instructor's stumbling across the entry and adding a comment that…
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