Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Sound Objects 1
5. I. Genealogies
6. 1. Reflections on the Sound Object and Reduced Listening 23
7. 2. Pierre Schaeffer and the (Recorded) Sound Source 33
8. 3. The Fluctuating Sound Object 53
9. II. Aural Reification, Sonic Commodification
10. 4. Listening with Adorno, Again 73
11. 5. Spectral Objects 94
12. III. Acousmatic Complications
13. 6. Listening after “Acousmaticity” 113
14. 7. The Skin of the Voice 130
15. IV. Sound Abjects and Nonhuman Relations
16. 8. The Acoustic Abject 151
17. 9. The Alluring Objecthood of the Heartbeat 167
18. 10. On Nonhuman Sound–Sound as Relation 185
19. V. Memory Traces
20. 11. The Sound of Arche-Cinema 211
21. 12. Listening to the Sirens 228
22. 13. Entities Inertias Faint Beings 246
23. Bibliography 265
24. Contributors 281
25. Index 285