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Kyle ShockeyIndiana University@kshockey04k.shockey04@gmail.comCAPAL ‘15 – 1 June 2015

Resisting Neoliberal

Aurality

in the Academic LibrarySlide2

In BriefWhat this isConvergence of discourses, literatureReconceptualization of spaceIntroduction of ethical framework

What this is not

A how-to

A prescription

A checklistSlide3

What do I mean?neoliberalismSlide4

(Enright 2013; Ong 2007, p. 3)“technology of governing”Slide5

(James 2014, p. 139) IT “SETS THE PARAMATERS WITHIN WHICH SPECIFIC PRACTICES ARE MEANINGFUL AND FUNCTIONAL” (JAMES 2014, P. 139; WINNUBST 2012)

“background epistemic or ideological context”Slide6

Economic governanceSocial epistemologyEnright 2013; Harvey 2005PrivitizationFinancialization

Management & Manipulation of Crises

State Redistribution

James 2014;

Winnubst

2012

Deregulation

Intensification

Resilience (James 2015)

Human capital

How does governance map to epistemology?Slide7

Attali (1997)This has precedent.Slide8

Why sound studies?Deep listening as a critical lens makes us rethink (Bull and Back 2003):the meaning, nature, and significance of our social experienceour relation to communityhow we relate to others, ourselves, and the spaces and places we inhabitour relationship to powerSlide9

R. Murray SchaferBarry Truax

The Simon Frazer InfluenceSlide10

(Schafer 1975; Blesser & Salter 2007)The SoundscapeSlide11

NOISE!Noise is a value judgment.(Bijsterveld 2003, 2007; Blesser

& Salter 2007;

Hendy 2013; Warren 2014)

Which contributes to:

Power/political posturing in social space

Branding of sonic capital

Suppression of dissent

Privitization

of social sound space

Classism through aesthetics of listening

Noise abatement as political and economic efficiencySlide12

(Warren 2014, p. 174)Psychologicallynot physiologically.

“there is no measurable amount of sound that is intrinsically bothersome.”Slide13

(Yelenik and Bressler 2013)LIS literature is all about noise abatement. Slide14

This is unquestioned.Slide15

The framework (Warren 2014)Consider not just what sound means but how meaning is made:Study of meaning as inherent in music/soundStudy of meaning as arbitrarily applied by the listenerStudy of meaning as biomechanical process

Study of meaning as a process of enculturation

Study of meaning as inter-relational

The last one is what we seek.Slide16

The Framework (Warren 2014), cont.Consider the framing elements of sonic experience.“context and acquired knowledge that influences the manner in which music [sound] is experienced” (p. 67)

You already have this knowledge. The key is to

identify

and

consider

it.Slide17

The framework (Warren 2014), cont.Consider how sound creates proximity between people.Proximity: meeting an other (not the subjugated kind) in a shared place ; “a difference which is non-indifference” (p. 135)Proximity requires a shared space on which to have an interaction.Shared space is governed by norms about how we should listen to and interpret sounds.Slide18

Norms are common sense.Neoliberal norms are market sense.Slide19

So consider this, for example:Who gets to speak or make sound in your library? From where and why? Who doesn’t?Who gets to complain about noise in your library? Who feels comfortable doing this, and why? What assumptions do they make?What implications does your policy have for those who are sonically marked both literally (technology aids for disability) and figuratively (accent/tone/language of minority)?Slide20

Kyle ShockeyIndiana University@kshockey04k.shockey04@gmail.comThanks for having me.Slide21

Photo CreditsBarry Truax photo courtesy of Barry Truax & Simon Frazer UniversityR. Murray Schafer photo courtesy of WikimediaSlide22

ReferencesAttali, J. (1977). Noise: The political economy of music. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.Blesser, B and Salter, L. R. (2007).

Spaces speak, are you listening?: Experiencing aural architecture.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Bijsterveld

, K.

(2003). “

The

diabolical

s

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of the

mechanical age

:

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sound

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Bull, M. and Back, L., eds.

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165-189.

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Bijsterveld

, K. (2008).

Mechanical sound: Technology, culture, and public problems of noise in the twentieth century.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Bull, M. and Back, L., (2003). “Introduction: into sound.” In Bull, M. and Back, L., eds.

The auditory culture reader,

1-18. Oxford: Berg.Slide23

References, continuedEnright, N. (2013). “The violence of information literacy: Neoliberalism and the human as capital.” In Gregory, L. and Higgins, S., eds., Information literacy and social justice: Radical professional praxis, 17-38. Sacramento, CA: Library Juice Press.

Harvey

, D. (2005).

A brief history of neoliberalism.

Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Harvey, D. (2007). “Neoliberalism as Creative Destruction.”

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 610

(1), 21-44.

Hendy, D. (2013).

Noise: A human history of sound and listening.

London: Profile Books

.

James

, R. (2014). “Neoliberal

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biopolitics

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James, R. (2015).

Resilience and melancholy: Pop music, feminism, neoliberalism

.

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Ong

,

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3–8), 3-8.Slide24

References, continuedSchafer, R. M. (1994). The soundscape: Our sonic environment and the tuning of our world. Rochester, VT. : Destiny Books.Schwartz, H. (2003). “The indefensible ear: A history.” In ” In Bull, M. and Back, L., eds. The auditory culture reader

,

489-510.

Oxford: Berg.

Truax

, B. (2001).

Acoustic Communication

. 2nd ed. Westport, CT:

Ablex

.

Warren, J. R. (2014)

Music and ethical responsibility

. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Winnubst

, S. (2012). “The queer thing about neoliberal pleasure.” Foucault Studies 14, 79-97.Yelenik, K. and

Bressler

, D. (2013). The perfect storm: A review of the literature on increased noise levels in academic libraries.

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(1): 40-51.