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Diese Folge ist ein eingelesener Aufsatz für die Zeitschrift Soziologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, im Rahmen eines Symposiums zu Medien der Soziologie. Das vollständige Manuskript kann hier heruntergeladen werden. Auf der Website experimentality.org finden Sie eine Liste soziologischer Podcasts die (nicht) erwähnt oder besprochen werden, sowie die Literaturhinweise aus dem Text.

Ich lese Kapitel "III. Die Falschheit der Welt" und Kapitel "IV. Die Fallstricke der Kritik" aus "Denken in einer schlechten Welt" von Geoffroy de Lagasnerie. Quelle: Lagasnerie, Geoffroy de. 2018. Denken in einer schlechten Welt. Übers. von Felix Kurz. 1. Auflage. Berlin: Matthes & Seitz.

In this episode I read "How to think sonically: on the generativity of the flesh" by Holger Schulze. Schulze discusses the question of what it means to think sonically and what consequences must be considered for academic work on sound and sonic phenomena. But also: how must academic forms of text, writing and other forms of presentation reflect on these questions? I originally read this text for the seminar "Writing culture - recording culture" I taught in the spring term of 2019 at the university of Bern. Bibliography: Schulze, Holger. 2017. How to think sonically? On the generativity of the flesh. In: Sonic thinking: a media philosophical approach, ed. by Berns Herzogenrath, 217–242. Thinking media. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc.

In this episode I read chapter 1: "Unlikely publics: on the edge of appearance" from the book "Sonic Agency" by Brandon Labelle. The book deals with the fascinating question of sonic agency - of what kind of agency becomes possible by and through sound and the sonic. LaBelle further develops a typology of 'unlikely publics', i.e. social formations and their contexts and conditions that have particular need for sonic agency (the invisible, the overheard, the itinerant, and the weak). The first chapter of the book seeks to give an introduction to the approach as well as the problems discussed. Unfortunately the language is unnecessarily complicating things; difficulties to follow the arguments cannot be attributed to the medium of reading out loud, but are already inherent in the written text.  I originally read this text for the seminar "Writing culture - recording culture" I taught in the spring term of 2019 at the university of Bern. Bibliography: LaBelle, Brandon. 2018. Sonic agency: sound and emergent forms of resistance. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.