MA Seminar taught at the Sound Studies and Sonic Arts program at the Universität der Künste Berlin, Summer Semester 2024.
„Non-Utilitarian Listening,“ as a theory seminar, provides an exercise on investigating knowledge, that is, how scientific practices have systematized and validated extraction as the only possible mode of organizing and reading the world. As a proposition, „Non-Utilitarian Listening“ rehearses thinking with listening as a way of making worlds, that is, as a practice that does not extract what is given but instead one that gives. This is a Seminar on the (im)possibility of listening to be thought from merely a sonic standpoint. It understands listening as an implicated practice of sense-making that, in many ways, outlines what it is that we think and feel to be „human“, and our assumed and entrained relationship of exteriority with nature and everything else.