Cómo se hace oír el mundo y otros ensayos sobre el sonido y la escucha

“Language, in this sense, begins with listening. Only because we listen can the world speak to us in its own voices. For it is in our ears, and in ours alone, that these voices come to life: the creaking of the trees, the howling of the wind, the roar of thunder. And it is in our ears, too, that they join in chorus, urging us to answer with words and songs, clothed in the resonant languages of poetry and myth.” – Tim Ingold

What is sound? A physical impulse travelling from a source to an ear that receives it, or a sensation that exists only in the mind?

Tim Ingold, anthropologist and one of the most original voices in contemporary thought, argues that sound is not an object we hear but the medium in which we hear; not something that happens out there and that we then interpret, but an event that runs through us, in which mind and world are no longer apart.

This selection of texts, in which Ingold enters into dialogue with thinkers such as John Cage, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze, invites us to think of our ears as vectors of attention: by lending them our listening, we give things a voice so that they, in turn, can make themselves heard.

Technical info

ISBN: 978-84-129776-7-7
Format: 120 × 180 mm
Pages: 108
Price: €10.00