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900 West 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90089

https://dornsife.usc.edu/cema/
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This workshop foregrounds how mindful, intersubjective, and collective listening practices affectively and inclusively engage with everyday lived environments and its cohabitants. The intervention underscores how this mode of co-listening suggests a pluriversal process of personal and community-driven sonic engagements and helps focusing on the contemplation and capacity for reciprocity in listening-ship. This approach generates an inclusive mode of engagement with lived environments, the community and co-habiting others by a production of context-aware intersubjectivity. Departing from Jean-Luc Nancy’s work Listening (2017) and Michel Chion’s listening modes discussed in his book Audio-Vision (1994), A Listening Society offers alternative, decolonial perspectives on intersubjective and collective listenings leaning towards sonic medi(t)ation that encourages listening without making immediate judgments by transcending ontological and epistemological constraints of sound. The workshop revolves around listening as a mindful act to compassionately engage with the interconnectedness of a distributed self and the lived environments, and bodies that co-habit the environments, namely humans, plants, animals, and other sentient beings in beyond-human societies. Challenging Western modernist ideas of listening as immediate meaning-making by deductive conclusions to facilitate everyday navigation, this workshop collectively proposes that listening beyond the self carries emancipatory potential to generating an acoustic solidarity and empowerment to the societies providing solace, care, and empathy in times of planetary turmoil and crises.

This program is open to all eligible individuals. USC operates all of its programs and activities consistent with the university’s Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation or any other prohibited factor.

 

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