Auscultations | Occultations, Listening to the Occult
CALL FOR PAPERS
Due June 1, 2018
Auscultations | Occultations, Listening to the Occult
Keynote Speakers: Jayna Brown (Pratt) and Joyelle McSweeney(Notre Dame)
Organized by David Cecchetto (York University), Marc Couroux (York University), Eldritch Priest (Simon Fraser University), Ted Hiebert (University of Washington Bothell) and Rebekah Sheldon (Indiana University)
“Auscultations | Occultations, Listening to the Occult” is the 6th Tuning Speculation conference, an annual interdisciplinary conference dedicated to bringing insights from speculative sound studies to bear on critical questions about contemporary media ecologies.
This year Tuning Speculation travels to Bloomington (Indiana) to explore the occult dimensions of sound. Sound has long been important as a metaphoric and material resource in occult sciences in figures like the Aeolian harp and technologies like spirit recordings. Sound also plays a significant role in the new materialisms via the vibratory dimensions attributed to the virtual by Gilles Deleuze and his followers. Recent works like Joshua Ramey’s The Hermetic Deleuze attune to the presence of sonic ontologies in both occult sciences and speculative philosophy.
Alongside these philosophical inquiries, the 21st century has also seen an efflorescence in fictional, filmic, musical, and critical explorations of the alter-modern hermeneutics of…. read more