EX005 Reading Chapter 1: "Unlikely Publics" by Brandon LaBelle

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.