Goh, Annie (2014) The Dimension of Sound in Flusser. Flusser Studies, 17. ISSN 1661-5719
Type of Research: | Article |
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Creators: | Goh, Annie |
Description: | The dimension of sound has long been considered completely missing from Flusser's thought, thus most Flusser research has not dealt with the auditive in his work so far. This article has a two-fold approach to counter this common perception; firstly, by looking at three (German) texts in which Flusser deals with music and sound directly – “Chamber Music”, “The Gesture of Listening To Music” and “Hörigkeit/Hoerapparate”, and secondly by looking at Flusser's key text “Crisis of Linearity” which largely ignores sound. The former tackles these lesser known texts to examine how Flusser actively (though rarely) applied music and sound in his work, whilst the latter uses methods of sound studies to critique the absence of sound in his important media-philosophical thesis. Flusser's writings on music and sound are both striking for the contemporaneity yet problematic for their demoded appearance of concepts such as “pure music”. Insights from contemporary sound studies question the dominance of the visual in Flusser's work and the epistemological consequences this might have. |
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Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed: | Sonic knowledge and pedagogies |
Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > Central Saint Martins Colleges > London College of Communication Research Centres/Networks > Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP) |
Date: | 6 June 2014 |
Date Deposited: | 16 Jan 2020 10:04 |
Last Modified: | 21 Aug 2024 16:15 |
Item ID: | 15337 |
URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/15337 |
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