Foreword Introduction: Blanchot and Sound 1. The Homage to Debussy at the Théâtre Des Champs-Elysées 2. From Dialectics to the Diabolical: adorno’s "new music" and blanchot’s "ars nova" 3. White Noise, Écriture Blanche 4. Passive Noise 5. Aesthetic Autophony and the Night: blanchot, kafka, kimsooja, burial 6. Affects, Indexes and Signs: will oldham and the authenticity of the voice in popular music 7. Dispersion in Sound 8. Blanchot and the Resonant Spaces of Literature, Sound, Art and Thought 9. In the Absence of Noise, Nothing Sounds: blanchot and the performance of harsh noise wall 10. The Call of the Disaster at the Borderland of Silence 11. Sonic Booms in Blanchot 12. Rumors of the Outside: blanchot’s murmurs and the indistinction of literature 13. Orpheus and the Vanishing Note: xenosonics, katabasis, daemonotechnics
Biography
Adam Potts is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Newcastle University, UK, and an interdisciplinary researcher who specialises in aesthetics, particularly the relationship between philosophy, sound and creative practice.
