The Sonic Persona An Anthropology of Sound

How do you live with sound – right now?

In The Sonic Persona Holger Schulze undertakes a critical study of some of the most influential studies in sound since the 19the century in the natural sciences, the engineering sciences and in architectural theory. From this fundamental critique concerning recent sound theories and their anthropological concepts he develops an alternate and more plastic and visceral framework for research in the field of a cultural anthropology of sounding and listening.

With Schulze's anthropology of sound the individual sonic persona is to be heard in dynamic and generative tension between predetermined auditory dispositives, miniaturized sound practices and its idiosyncratic sensory body: a critique of the senses.

Part One
The Sound & The Sonic: Science history & science critique of sound

1863/1929/1958: The Quantification Of Sound
1962/1970/2008: The Materialization Of Listening
1985/1992/2010: The Corporealization Of the Senses

Part Two
The Sonic Persona: An anthropology of sound

The Auditory Dispositive.
The Sonic Persona.
The Sensory Corpus.

Part Three
Critique Of The Senses Studies in political & institutional criticism

Sensological Criticism
Resistance and Resonance
The Generativity Of The Flesh

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