Abstract
ABSTRACT This paper explores the notion of infrapolitics as the political dimension of reverberation and architectural acoustics. This aim is approached through a media-archaeological counterreading of the history of poor acoustics in the former chamber of the US House of Representatives supplied by historian Emily Thompson, as well as through juxtaposition of other cases of reverberation envelopes from the history of architectural acoustics. A media archaeological approach to reverberation and architectural acoustics, it is argued, approaches infrapolitics as a speculative understanding of the effect of architectural acoustics on early American democracy, and of architectural acoustics on discourse in general.
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