Sonic Materialism: Hearing the Arche-Sonic

‘Sonic Materialism: Hearing the Arche-Sonic’ in Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Mark Grimshaw, Mads Walther-Hansen and Martin Knakkergaard eds, Oxford University Press, 2019.

This chapter tries to make a contribution to current ideas on materiality, reality, objectivity, and subjectivity as they are articulated in the many texts on New Materialism that have emerged recently under the auspices of Speculative Realism, Object-Orientated Ontology, Complexity Theory, and various other current and emerging ‘sub-genres’ that all share a renewed interest in the status and understanding of materiality, material relationships, and the role of the human subject in the context of a contemporary world, whose technological and actual globalization clamors for a new critical engagement and scholarship to grasp the impact and to articulate the significance of its fluid interconnectedness.