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Croaks and Calls: posthuman sound ecologies in the neo-avant-garde
Linköping University, Department of Culture and Society, Division of Communication, Literature and Swedish. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. (LMI)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8111-1030
2021 (English)In: Tuning in to the Neo-Avant-Garde: experimental radio plays in the postwar period / [ed] Inge Arteel, Lars Bernaerts, Siebe Bluijs and Pim Verhulst, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021, p. 87-105Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This chapter investigates how media historical transformations in the decades after the Second World War affected radio art and sound poetry and, especially, their (re)presentations of humans and animals. Apart from new sound technologies (e.g. the tape recorder), information technology and cybernetics are crucial here, not least in promoting an ‘ecologisation’ (Erich Hörl) of thinking and being, which problematises anthropocentrism and subject-object configurations. Instead, there is a transition to relationality and immersion. In this chapter, the potential of sound for staging and exploring such a transition is investigated and underlined through analyses of radio art and poetry by Swedish artists and poets Åke Hodell and Öyvind Fahlström, partly framed by a discussion of Samuel Beckett’s early radio play, All That Fall (1956). In the Swedish works, attention is paid to birds and their calls primarily, but also to other sounds, which displace the human voice and gaze as organising agencies and establish a more diffuse and open acoustic space and time. The latter is designated as a ‘posthuman sound ecology’, which stresses not only the sonic presence of other beings, but also a poetically shaped and playful transmutation of the established, almost naturalised, hierarchies and relations between humans and non-humans.

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Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021. p. 87-105
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sound poetry; radio; posthuman; cybernetics; ecology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-169809ISBN: 978-1-5261-5571-9 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-169809DiVA, id: diva2:1468982
Available from: 2020-09-18 Created: 2020-09-18 Last updated: 2022-03-16Bibliographically approved

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