Sounding Off in the Humanities
Location
Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
19-9-2016 11:00 AM
Description
In recent years, a range of scholars have argued for moving beyond the established, overly deterministic critical methods that guide humanities research. In this presentation, Eric Detweiler argues that sound studies opens productive possibilities for pushing the limits of critique and for questioning the divide between “critical” and “creative” work. He focuses specifically on work in sonic rhetorics, a field with long-standing ties to both invention and critique, as well as the particular affordances of academic podcasts. In addition to his own podcast, Rhetoricity, he discusses precedents in radio and sound art, plus present-day podcasts that might stretch our conception of what scholarship in the humanities can look and sound like.
Recommended Citation
Detweiler, Eric, "Sounding Off in the Humanities" (2016). Humanities Symposium. 29.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2016/2016/29
Sounding Off in the Humanities
Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094
In recent years, a range of scholars have argued for moving beyond the established, overly deterministic critical methods that guide humanities research. In this presentation, Eric Detweiler argues that sound studies opens productive possibilities for pushing the limits of critique and for questioning the divide between “critical” and “creative” work. He focuses specifically on work in sonic rhetorics, a field with long-standing ties to both invention and critique, as well as the particular affordances of academic podcasts. In addition to his own podcast, Rhetoricity, he discusses precedents in radio and sound art, plus present-day podcasts that might stretch our conception of what scholarship in the humanities can look and sound like.
Comments
Convocation Credit: Society and the Arts and Sciences