“Theory lags.” Review of the book "Uncurating sound. Knowledge with Voice and Hands" by Salomé Voegelin

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Abstract

The book review presents the main issues raised in Salomé Voegelin's latest book, Uncurating sound. Knowledge with Voice and Hands, which continues the project of sound philosophy initiated in Listening to Noise and Silence and continued in subsequent book publications. The author of the article presents the questions of the politics of listening and possible sound worlds from Voegelin's works. From her perspective, the book under review emphasizes the need to transform art institutions into caring spaces, critically analyzes contemporary art, argues for the necessity of going beyond institutional frameworks, and postulates the restructuring of both sound knowledge and art institutions, especially in the face of new challenges such as pandemic and postnormality.