@inbook{f56a6cf34131403c929aa02e08d8a712,
title = "The Sound System of the State: Critical Listening as Performative Resistance",
abstract = "This chapter discusses the sonic methodology of critical listening as a means of interpreting these cues in their political context. This methodology can be used to reveal the ways in which sound operates as an ideological sphere. I will examine critical listening both as a method for analysing state sound systems and as a performative act of political resistance in its own right. The text draws on John L. Austin{\textquoteright}s influential theory of speech acts, outlining the role of the listening agency in setting the conditions for the failure or success of illocutionary acts. Listening is then conceptualized as a means of resistance that can challenge or subvert the ideological signification of state- produced sounds. Building upon this performative role, critical listening is theorized as a method which broadens our understanding of how ideological sound systems can be challenged and resisted.",
keywords = "Sound studies, Methodologies, Conflict, Defence, Ideology, Power, Foucault, Agamben, Sound, Resistance, Arts, Aesthetics, philosophy, 2020",
author = "Tom Tlalim",
year = "2020",
month = dec,
language = "English",
series = "Bloomsbury Handbooks",
publisher = "Bloomsbury",
pages = "720--732",
editor = "Michael Bull and Marcel Cobussen",
booktitle = "The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sonic Methodologies",
}