Listening in a Time of Pandemic: New Mediations and Intimacies between Solitude and Solidarity

Jessica Feldman; Naomi Waltham-Smith

doi:10.6092/issn.1971-8853/11522

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Jessica Feldman Department of Global Communications, The American University of Paris http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6860-2206
Jessica Feldman is an Assistant Professor/Enseignante-Chercheuse in the Department of Global Communications at The American University of Paris, where she directs the Civic Media Lab. She is also an affiliated researcher in the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford University, and a practicing artist. Her research is concerned with the relationship between listening, emerging digital design, social justice, and self-governance.
Naomi Waltham-Smith Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6268-7950
Naomi Waltham-Smith is Associate Professor in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick. At the intersection of music, sound studies, and recent European philosophy, her work appears in journals including boundary 2, The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, CR: The New Centennial Review, diacritics, Music Theory Spectrum, parallax, parrhesia, and Sound Studies. She is the author of Music and Belonging Between Revolution and Restoration (Oxford University Press, 2017) and Shattering Biopolitics: Militant Listening and the Sound of Life (Fordham University Press, 2021). In 2019–2020, she is a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/11522

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Listening, Protest, Sociality, Digital Mediation, Solitude

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During the pandemic, listening habits around the world have been undergoing significant transformation in response to various public health measures imposing physical distancing and stay-at-home-isolation. This situation has prompted new experiments with digital mediations, transformations in modalities of protest and autonomy, and impulses towards anecdotal accounts in a bid to share experiences of isolation. The essays in this special feature range across a variety of socio-political and disciplinary concerns and point towards a crucial issue facing societies today: how to design new forms and practices of listening to foster the forms of sociality and collectivity urgently needed in a changed world.

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