GCSC KNL l Prof. Dr. Rolf Goebel (University of Alabama, Huntsville, USA) " Sound Studies Today: Auditory Experience, Media Technologies, and Literary Textuality"
- https://www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns/veranstaltungen/sonstige/gcsc-knl-sound-studies-today-auditory-experience-media-technologies-and-literary-textuality
- GCSC KNL l Prof. Dr. Rolf Goebel (University of Alabama, Huntsville, USA) " Sound Studies Today: Auditory Experience, Media Technologies, and Literary Textuality"
- 2025-07-08T18:00:00+02:00
- 2025-07-08T20:00:00+02:00
08.07.2025 von 18:00 bis 20:00 (Europe/Berlin / UTC200)
MFR GCSC Otto-Behaghel Str. 12 / Online (BBB)
As an interdisciplinary and intercultural field of inquiry, current sound studies explores, among many other directions, the interplay among the human subject’s auditory experiences, media-technological sound (re-)production, and music, visual arts, or literature in diverse historical/cultural contexts. My talk will address theoretical and methodological concerns of current North-American and German sound studies. Critical attention will be given to recent forays into sonic materialism’s focus on bodily-affective resonance, idiosyncratically subjective sound experiences, and factors of race, gender, and social class. Selective examples will be taken from Friedrich Hölderlin (for the classical-romantic period), Virginia Woolf (for high modernism), Yukio Mishima (for Japanese late modernism) and Don DeLillo (American postmodernism). These excerpts reveal the power of the literary imagination to provide self-reflexive interrogations into the (non-)representability of sound, addressing philosophical assumptions, cognitive interests, and ideological biases that sometimes remain partly hidden under pragmatic research projects into sonic realities.