Notes on Mad Listening
An Audio EssayFor a full transcript, please visit:
Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry
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This audio essay is an attempt to illustrate my lifelong experience of non-normative listening, which sometimes takes the form of an active practice (in listening “against the grain” of psychonormativity) and, at other times, comes on suddenly in a moment of disturbance and disorientation. By depathologizing and demedicalizing madness, my goal is to emphasize the persistent ambiguities and slippages of auditory perception that are not so easy to taxonomize.
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Readers
Matthew Tomkinson
Elissa HansonSound Design
Matthew TomkinsonWeb Design
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This project was completed with the generous support of the Public Scholars Initiative (PSI) at the University of British Columbia.