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## Lesson 1: How to become (in)audible by disabling silicon ears
With difficulty; name machine listening as an object of political contestation and struggle; describe some of its features, as they are clarified by the pandemic; become an artist becoming a paradigm dissident; dismantle capitalism and abolish big data, since they are increasingly difficult to disentangle; follow machine listening's history, beyond itself; produce a diverse counterculture of machine listening; imagine a machine listening [centered in country](https://oldwaysnew.com/); demonstrate and mock machine listening in its thoughtlessness; demonstrate and mock the machine listening industry in its thoughtlessness; write a policy document, but with artists as well as lawyers; seize the data centres.
With difficulty; name machine listening as an object of political contestation and struggle; describe some of its features, as they are clarified by the pandemic; become an artist becoming a paradigm dissident; dismantle capitalism and abolish big data, since they are increasingly difficult to disentangle; follow machine listening's history, beyond itself; produce a diverse counterculture of machine listening; imagine a machine listening ;[^Abdilla] demonstrate and mock machine listening in its thoughtlessness; demonstrate and mock the machine listening industry in its thoughtlessness; write a policy document, but with artists as well as lawyers; seize the data centres.
## Lesson 2: How to be (in)audible in the presence of microphones
Tear them down or rip them out; develop a community-based open source [voice training app](https://github.com/project-spectra) for trans folk;[^Ahmed] autotune everything; be somewhere loud; mask your speech with noise; invent the privacy industry; never use a telephone, or a smart speaker, or a car, or a city; ask Siri; cover your laptop with sticky tape; have a speech disorder or an accent; write a manifesto on audio luddism; invent new languages; be female and over 50, or indigenous; speak Wiradjuri.
Tear them down or rip them out; [develop]((https://github.com/project-spectra)) a community-based open source  for trans folk;[^Ahmed] autotune everything; be somewhere loud; mask your speech with noise; invent the privacy industry; never use a telephone, or a smart speaker, or a car, or a city; ask Siri; cover your laptop with sticky tape; have a speech disorder or an accent; write a manifesto on audio luddism; invent new languages; be female and over 50, or indigenous; speak Wiradjuri.
## Lesson 3: How to make yourself (in)audible by being out of earshot
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# Bibliography
[^Forensic]: LIBRARY Forensic Architecture, Violence at the Threshold of Detectability (2017),p27.
[^forensic listening]: LIBRARY Lawrence Abu Hamdan, “Aural Contract–Forensic Listening and The Reorganization Of The Speaking Subject,” Cesura//Acceso 1 (2014): 200; James Parker, "Forensic Listening in Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Saydnaya (the missing 19dB)" *Index* (2020).
[^Abdilla]: Interview with Angie Abdilla, founder of [Old Ways, New](https://oldwaysnew.com/) on 2 September 2020
[^Ahmed]: LIBRARY Alex Ahmed, 'Online Community-based Design of Free and Open Source Software for Transgender Voice Training' (2020); Alex Ahmed, 'Trans Competent Interaction Design: A Qualitative Study on Voice, Identity, and Technology' *Interacting with Computers* (2018)
[^reid]: Interview with [Kathy Reid](https://blog.kathyreid.id.au/) on 11 August, 2020
