Zurück aus Berlin habe ich mit Stefan M Seydel telefoniert. Anlass war die zurückliegende Verteidigung meiner Dissertation vergangene Woche, aber auch und in diesem Zusammenhang ein Tweet von Maren Lehmann zur Veröffentlichung der Aufzeichnungen des Disputationsvortrags als letzte Folge des Podlog. Was provoziert daran so? Warum kann etwas nur entweder Prüfungsleistung sein, oder artistic research? Und begründet diese Kritik wirklich einen Mythos der letzten Disputation (so Stefans...

In this episode I read "How to think sonically: on the generativity of the flesh" by Holger Schulze. Schulze discusses the question of what it means to think sonically and what consequences must be considered for academic work on sound and sonic phenomena. But also: how must academic forms of text, writing and other forms of presentation reflect on these questions? I originally read this text for the seminar "Writing culture - recording culture" I taught in the spring term of 2019 at the...

In this episode I read chapter 1: "Unlikely publics: on the edge of appearance" from the book "Sonic Agency" by Brandon Labelle. The book deals with the fascinating question of sonic agency - of what kind of agency becomes possible by and through sound and the sonic. LaBelle further develops a typology of 'unlikely publics', i.e. social formations and their contexts and conditions that have particular need for sonic agency (the invisible, the overheard, the itinerant, and the weak). The first...

In this episode I read Chapter 2: "Sonic compositions" from the book Recording culture by Daniel Makagon and Mark Neumann. This book can be understood as one of the most important reflections on the increasingly popular methods in ethnographic field work using recording technology. Besides this it is exceptionally well written. The second chapter discusses some genres and formats of academic but mostly non-academic audio works (soundscapes, soundwalks and sonic maps, radio diaries and audio...

In this episode I read Chapter 1: "Writing Culture - Recording Culture" from the book "Recording culture" by Daniel Makagon and Mark Neumann. This book can be understood as one of the most important reflections on the increasingly popular methods in ethnographic field work using recording technology. Besides this it is exceptionally well written. The first chapter sheds some light on the context of the so-called "writing culture debate" as a context for equally important reflexions of...

In this episode I read James Clifford's introduction from the famous essay collection Writing culture: the poetics and politics of ethnography  edited by James Clifford. In itself the chapter might be one of the most important texts of the so called "writing culture debate". I originally read this text for the seminar "Writing culture - recording culture" I taught in spring of 2019 at the university of Bern. (As a comment: I know, this is not very well read, yet it was my first attempt...

Ich beginne die Arbeit in einem neuen Experimentalsystem. Oder Habe schon längst begonnen. Vielleicht markiert die erste Folge hier nur mehr einen Anfang einer Serie stellvertretend für einen Anfang, der nie gefunden werden kann. Der Logik des Feed ist es geschuldet, dass es nun mal eine erste Folge gibt, und das ist diese.Zu der Form von kulturwissenschaftlichen Experimentalsystemen, dem Problem des Anfangs, Anschlüssen, Interpunktionen; zum Medium des Hörens, zum hier und jetzt im immer und...