
Ludic Dreaming
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Put differently, Ludic Dreaming is a how-to book for listening away from the seeming fatality of contemporary technologies, which is to say, away from the seeming inevitability of late capitalistic nihilism.
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A very welcome book ... One emerges from a reading in much the same state as one does from a dream: convinced of its importance and excited by the flow and variety of its ideas. * Organised Sound * Dreams have always been ally to artists, allergy to art theorists. The Enlightenment has been burdened by a sun soaked conceit of waking life that suppresses sounds and the earthly orbits of sleep. Here is a bright eared collective who take the full play of light and shadow playfully and theory-ously. Sounds are wrenched from being physical acoustics of soundscapes ported into the head and bilaterally returned to an electrochemical brain domain where they discourse with the "prerogative of sleep" rather than a pejorative of unenlightenment. What's in the water in Canada? They should export it. * Douglas Kahn, Professor, National Institute for Experimental Arts, University of New South Wales, Australia * Ludic Dreaming is provocative and adventurous in thought and style, offering a fresh approach to the thinking of sound, and a whimsical, highly productive, excursion from the field. * Frances Dyson, Emeritus Professor in Cinema and Digital Media, University of California, Davis, USA * The Occulture are the King Crimson of contemporary theoretical pataphysics; and the true inheritors of that special Canadian strain of smart, dark, technically-informed intellectual experimentation represented by McLuhan, Cronenberg, Gibson, and the Krokers. This new collaboration is a playfully serious, mind-bending tour of the current sonic mediascape, and some of the less obvious dream factories which compose it (including, and especially, ourselves). Ludic Dreaming resolders the scattered phantasmagoric fragments of what we might now consider, after reading this collection, the Disunited States of Oneirica. * Dominic Pettman, Professor of Culture & Media, New School for Social Research, USA * Dreams do not distort reality, so much as they are the reality of that distortion. Ludic Dreaming puts dreams in contact with electronic sounds, and digital devices more generally, in order to trace out the exotic topology of our post-everything society. * Steven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State University, USA * This book is a piece of sound writing. Blurring the boundaries between dream, vision and physics, it stretches the reader's imagination into playful and oneiric realms of sonic materiality. A gift. * Deborah A. Kapchan, Associate Professor of Performance Studies, New York University USA * If contemporary networked capitalism is built on promissory hallucinations to which we wake in fright, then Ludic Dreaming is both sonic boom and boon for an altogether different reverie. Its essays hum with the aural ludicrousness of technocultural phenomena - from black holes that emit B flat frequencies to new generation ear buds that purport to (almost) playback the voice inside our heads. But in ludically tuning in to our nightmarish technologies, Cecchetto, Couroux, Hiebert and Priest [or The Occulture] concurrently compose a delirious counter-counterpoint accompaniment. And herein lies the remarkable and highly original contribution of this book to cultural theory, media and sound studies, and speculative thought. Affording listening a speculative creativity rather than mere receptive functionality, Ludic Dreaming performs an 'elsewhere' listening; a sounding of novel spectra into existence. You will never want to wake up from Ludic Dreaming! * Anna Munster, Associate Professor, Art and Design, University of New South Wales, Australia *More details
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David Cecchetto is Associate Professor of Critical Digital Theory in the Department of Humanities at York University, Canada and a member of the experimental theory group "The Occulture."
Marc Couroux is Associate Professor of Visual Art in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design at York University, Canada and a member of the experimental theory group "The Occulture."
Ted Hiebert is Associate Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington, Bothell, USA and a long-time collaborator of "The Occulture."
Content
Introduction
Auralneiricizing Time (Listening Away)
Nietzsche in B-flat: Attuning to the 'Pataphysics of Data
Absolute Ventriloquy (or, Earing the Senses)
Psycho(tic)acoustics
The Sound of Both Ears Oozing: Chasms, Collapses, and Phono-Digital Networks
Motivational Dreamers and the 'Pataphysics of Exploding Heads
Imaginary Magnitudes & the Anoriginal Hypocrisy that Vanishes in the Meantime
We Are Lesion
Conclusion
Index
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