The Muting of the Other: The Technological Reconfiguration of Our Auditory Experience of Others

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985955%3A_____%2F21%3A00546605" target="_blank" >RIV/67985955:_____/21:00546605 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2020-0179" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2020-0179</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2020-0179" target="_blank" >10.1515/opphil-2020-0179</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Muting of the Other: The Technological Reconfiguration of Our Auditory Experience of Others

Original language description

Increasingly privatized auditory spaces resulting from the mutual engendering of auditory cultural practices and sound technologies that separated the sense of hearing and segmented acoustic spaces have had a muting effect on our experience of Others that has intensified since the advent of mobile listening devices. In Section 1 of the article, I outline features of the social realm of the nineteenth to twentieth centuries that made modern sound technologies possible and then features of the technological realm that have shaped today’s social realm - all with an eye toward our experience of other people. Then, in Section 2, I reach for a few phenomenological tools from the work of Jean-Paul Sartre, Emmanuel Levinas, and Don Ihde to draw out the phenomenological vectors that have taken shape within the enmeshed sociotechnological context described in Section 1. Specifically, I show how technologically mediated auditory experience has been individualized and how the use of sound technologies on the go - whether wearing earphones or in a car - has had a muting effect on our experience of others.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA20-27355S" target="_blank" >GA20-27355S: Phenomenological Investigations of Sonic Environments</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Open Philosophy

ISSN

2543-8875

e-ISSN

2543-8875

Volume of the periodical

4

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

179-189

UT code for WoS article

000701264200006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85116099997