TY - JOUR
T1 - Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear
T2 - by Steve Goodman, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2009, 296 pp., $25.00 (pb), ISBN 9780262517959
AU - Mouraviev, Ivan
PY - 2021/7/6
Y1 - 2021/7/6
N2 - There are few texts with a premise as seductive as that of Sonic Warfare, the first monograph by philosopher and musician Steve Goodman. A decade ago, Goodman weaved together a sonic-materialist philosophy with analyses of aesthetic, military, and corporate deployments of sonic weapons. Notably, the work pays attention to the materialism of Afro-diasporic sound system culture, reflecting the author’s own activities in this space as Kode9, a DJ-producer in London, where he contributed to the early development of dubstep and remains the owner-operator of the record label Hyperdub. In this retrospective review, I celebrate ten years since Sonic Warfare’s publication and reflect on its significance to Sound Studies.
AB - There are few texts with a premise as seductive as that of Sonic Warfare, the first monograph by philosopher and musician Steve Goodman. A decade ago, Goodman weaved together a sonic-materialist philosophy with analyses of aesthetic, military, and corporate deployments of sonic weapons. Notably, the work pays attention to the materialism of Afro-diasporic sound system culture, reflecting the author’s own activities in this space as Kode9, a DJ-producer in London, where he contributed to the early development of dubstep and remains the owner-operator of the record label Hyperdub. In this retrospective review, I celebrate ten years since Sonic Warfare’s publication and reflect on its significance to Sound Studies.
U2 - 10.1080/20551940.2021.1949867
DO - 10.1080/20551940.2021.1949867
M3 - Book/Film/Article review (Academic Journal)
JO - Sound Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
JF - Sound Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
SN - 2055-1959
ER -