The acoustical unconscious from Walter Benjamin to Alexander Kluge
Is there an acoustical equivalent to Walter Benjamin’s idea of the optical unconscious? In the 1930s, Benjamin was interested in how visual media expand our optical perception: the invention of the camera allowed us to see images and details that we could not consciously perceive before. This study...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston
De Gruyter
2022, ©2022
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| Series: | Interdisciplinary German cultural studies
volume 32 |
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Hearing Otherwise
- 1 Walter Benjamin's Shell-Shock: Sounding the Acoustical Unconscious
- 2 Of Birds and Barks: Listening in on the Forgotten in Freud, Benjamin, and Tieck
- 3 Voices Carry: Benjamin and Arnheim on Radio
- 4 Glimpsing the World through Our Ears: Günter Eich and the Acoustical Unconscious
- 5 Clatter in Kracauer and Kluge: Politicizing the Acoustical Unconscious
- Conclusion: Toward a Genealogy of the Acoustical Unconscious
- Works Cited
- Index