Sonic Possible Worlds. Hearing the Continuum of Sound
2nd edition

From its use in literary theory, film criticism and the discourse of games design, Salome Voegelin expands 'possible world theory to think the worlding of sound in music, in art and in the everyday. The modallogic of possible worlds, articulated principally via David K. Lewis and developed through Maurice Merleàu-Ponty's phenomenological life-worlds. creates a view ors the invisible slices of the world and reflects on how to make them count. politically and aesthetically. How to make them thinkable and accessible as the possibility of the everyday and of art : to reach a new materialist understanding from the invisible and to develop an ear for the as yet inaudible. This revised edition continues Voegelin s exploration of the sonic possibility of the world into the sonic possibility and impossibility of the body. Listening to work byÁine O'Dwyer. Hannah Silva and Joey de Oliveira, it considers sonic possible worlds' radical power to rethink normative constructions and to Tabulate a different body from its sound : Hearing the Continuum between Plural Bodies between humans, humanoid aliens ; monsters, vampires, plants, fflings and anything we have no name for yet but which a sonic philosophy might start to hear and call.