From b94dcd3655de6b293bf91c36de27927e0513c9d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: james Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 03:54:50 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update 'content/topic/lessons-in-how-(not)-to-be-heard.md' --- content/topic/lessons-in-how-(not)-to-be-heard.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/topic/lessons-in-how-(not)-to-be-heard.md b/content/topic/lessons-in-how-(not)-to-be-heard.md index 51b19d3..1b35dc4 100644 --- a/content/topic/lessons-in-how-(not)-to-be-heard.md +++ b/content/topic/lessons-in-how-(not)-to-be-heard.md @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ The ambivalent politics of (in)visibility are made even starker in [Forensic Arc So for Forensic Architecture, as for many others, the political challenge is not (or not just) how to become invisible, but how to ensure that certain state practices and injustices do not remain so. "War is invisible," Steyerl tells us, more wryly. "Capital is invisible." -What would it mean to think about machine listening this way? To recognise the importance of *not* being heard: to make inaudibility a political demand; to develop a structural critique of surveillant and extractive listenings alongside more insurgent tactics for rendering oneself or one's community inaudible. But at the same time to recognise that audibility is also something to be fought for; that very often it is a condition of poilitical participation, or of justice; to follow Lawrence Abu Hamdan in imagining a politically radical *forensic* listening, that was not already captured by legal institutions and the state;[^forensic listening] to hold open the possibility of a machinic counter-listening; of listening-back. +What would it mean to think about machine listening this way (as indeed Steyerl has [already](https://youtu.be/iyyM4vDg0xw) begun doing)? To recognise the importance of *not* being heard: to make inaudibility a political demand; to develop a structural critique of surveillant and extractive listenings alongside more insurgent tactics for rendering oneself or one's community inaudible. But at the same time to recognise that audibility is also something to be fought for; that very often it is a condition of poilitical participation, or of justice; to follow Lawrence Abu Hamdan in imagining a politically radical *forensic* listening, that was not already captured by legal institutions and the state;[^forensic listening] to hold open the possibility of a machinic counter-listening; of listening-back. What is the acoustic equivalent of resolution? Perhaps fidelity; a word that also suggests responsibility, that points perhaps in the direction of law or justice. In this way of thinking, the question is not so much whether to be heard or not, but rather *how* one is heard, why and by whom.