1. Introduction: On Sonotropism Martin Scherzinger 2. Vibrating Colors and Silent Bodies. Music, Sound and Silence in Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Critique of Dualism Amy Cimini 3. Ernst Bloch’s Utopian Ton of Hope Michael Gallope 4. Awakening Dead Time: Adorno on Husserl, Benjamin, and the Temporality of Music Stephen Decatur Smith 5. Heidegger’s Ears: Hearing, Attunement, and the Acoustic Shaping of Being and Time Jennifer L. Heuson 6. Destination Unknown: Jean-François Lyotard and Orienting Musical Affect Trent Leipert 7. Jean-Luc Nancy and the Listening Subject Brian Kane 8. Slavoj Žižek: Responding from the Void Holly Watkins 9. Wagner Redux: Badiou on Music for the Future Martin Scherzinger 10. Rancière’s Equal Music Jairo Moreno and Gavin Steingo 11. Another Music, A Time to Forget: Reflections on Edward Said’s Late Style James Currie
Biography
Martin Scherzinger is a composer and associate professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University, USA. His research specializes in sound studies, music, media and politics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with a particular interest in political economy and digital sound technologies, the sensory limits of mass-mediated music, copyright and censorship, the mathematical geometries of musical time, and the history of sound in philosophy.
