1st Edition

Foucault & the Politics of Hearing

By Lauri Siisiäinen Copyright 2013
180 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

The issue of the senses and sensual perception in Michel Foucault’s thought has been a source of prolific discussion already for quite some time. Often, Foucault has been accused of overemphasizing the centrality of sight, and has been portrayed as yet another thinker representative of Western ocularcentricism. This innovative new work seeks to challenge this portrait by presenting an... Read more
1.From the Empire of the Gaze to Noisy Bodies: Empirical Regimes and the Archaeology of Sound  2. From Panoptic to Panacoustic/Panauditory  3. Pastoral Power, Confession and Sexuality: Dispositives of Hearing and the "Sensualization of Power"  4. The Problem of Noise and the Governmentality of Sound  5. Music and the Politics of Friendship (Foucault and Boulez)  6. Voices of Multitude, Voices of Crowd: Foucault’s Final Voice?

Biography

Lauri Siisiainen is a researcher in the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland.