Abstract
The practice of listening has been put forth as a corrective to humanity’s ecological insensitivity, and the artistic use of recording technology has allowed us to experience nonhuman soundscapes. Yet such acoustic ecology warrants further critical attention. In this essay, I turn to Giorgio Agamben’s notion of the sacred to show how the valorization of the listening subject can actually run contrary to ecological aims. In part, this has to do with an unresolved material politics that risks reifying old human/nature divides. To the extent that ‘listening’ has become a buzzword, I endeavour to hold on to the sonic ways of knowing implied by the term while calling for greater attention to the conditions of its practice.
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