The Acoustical Unconscious : : From Walter Benjamin to Alexander Kluge / / Robert Ryder.

Is there an acoustical equivalent to Walter Benjamin’s idea of the optical unconscious? In the 1930s, Benjamin was interested in how visual media expand our optical perception: the invention of the camera allowed us to see images and details that we could not consciously perceive before. This study...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies , 32
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Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 265 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Hearing Otherwise
  • 1 Walter Benjamin’s Shell-Shock: Sounding the Acoustical Unconscious
  • 2 Of Birds and Barks: Listening in on the Forgotten in Freud, Benjamin, and Tieck
  • 3 Voices Carry: Benjamin and Arnheim on Radio
  • 4 Glimpsing the World through Our Ears: Günter Eich and the Acoustical Unconscious
  • 5 Clatter in Kracauer and Kluge: Politicizing the Acoustical Unconscious
  • Conclusion: Toward a Genealogy of the Acoustical Unconscious
  • Works Cited
  • Index