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Mowitt is particularly interested in the fact that beyond hearing and listening we \"audit\" sounds and do so by drawing on paradigms of thought not easily accommodated within the concept of \"sound studies.\" To draw attention to the ways in which sounds often are not perceived for the social and political functions they serve, each chapter presents a culturally resonant sound - including a whistle, an echo, a gasp, and silence - to show how sounds enable critical social and political concepts such as dialogue, privacy, memory, social order, and art-making. 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A communication apparatus that was a founding technology of twentieth-century mass culture, radio drew the attention of theoretical and philosophical writers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Lacan, and Frantz Fanon, who used it as a means to disseminate their ideas. For others, such as Martin Heidegger, Theodor Adorno, and Raymond Williams, radio served as an object of urgent reflection. Mowitt considers how the radio came to matter, especially politically, to phenomenology, existentialism, Hegelian Marxism, anticolonialism, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies. 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Beginning with the Tel Quel group in France in the sixties and seventies, Mowitt's study details how a certain interdisciplinary crisis prompted academics to rethink the conditions of cultural interpretation. Concentrating on three disciplinary projects—literary analysis, film studies, and musicology—Mowitt shows how textuality's emergence called into question not merely the relations among these disciplines, but also the cultural logic of disciplinary reason as such. At once an effort to define \"the text\" and to explore and extend the theory of textuality, this book illustrates why the notion of interdisciplinary research has recently acquired such urgency. At the same time, by emphasizing the genealogical dimension of the textual object, Mowitt raises the issues of its \"antidisciplinary\" character, and by extension its immediate pertinence for the current debates over multiculturalism and Eurocentrism.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50368342753553,"sku":"CIN0822312735G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53014063055121,"sku":"NIN9780822312734","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0822312735.jpg?v=1761389091"},{"product_id":"offering-theory-book-john-mowitt-9781839982347","title":"Offering Theory","description":"A reading of Theory that in tracing when and where Theory arises in the event of reading proposes how Theory might best be handled in the context of higher education today. Arguing against those who propose to avoid Theory in the name of its putative obsolescence, this text sets out to challenge two aspects of this avoidance. On the one hand, Theory has been set aside in the name of identity politics, that is, the proposition that its intellectual pertinence has been overshadowed by a sense of political urgency construed as at odds with Theory. Theory itself has assumed an identity, a profile. On the other hand, implicit within the avoidance of Theory is a concept of “context” that calls for reflection. Resisting the tendency to treat context as either negligible or obvious, this text sets out to trace, in the when and where of Theory, the rudiments of a “sociographic” (think “historiographic”) account of context. In relation to it, the reading that is Theory can be usefully situated as part of a politics of higher education in the era of the global crisis of the university.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51120533537041,"sku":"NIN9781839982347","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52140555895057,"sku":"NLS9781839982347","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1839982349.jpg?v=1750898582"},{"product_id":"offering-theory-book-john-mowitt-9781785274060","title":"Offering Theory","description":"A reading of Theory that in tracing when and where Theory arises in the event of reading proposes how Theory might best be handled in the context of higher education today. Arguing against those who propose to avoid Theory in the name of its putative obsolescence, this text sets out to challenge two aspects of this avoidance. 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More specifically, by thinking about the distinctly cinematic iteration of the question of communication (citing here Captain's what we have here is ... failure to communicate from Cool Hand Luke) I propose that mediated communication embodies the Ich\/Es modality of dialogue disparaged by Martin Buber. What this invites us to consider is whether Lazarus in particular isn't the generation of an audiovisual tombeau from which or out of which communication strains are to be heard. Is it saying farewell? Is it saying anything? By drawing on Jacques Derrida's appropriation of the crypt in the work of Abraham and Torok, I propose that Lazarus manages (and the feat is neither small nor insignificant) to communicate nothing. In effect, Lazarus is the very sound, not of a failure to communicate, but of a speaking emptied of what protects it from mediation. 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