Sounds that didn’t fit into the technology (about the decolonial crafts of listening)

ABSTRACT

This essay discusses some problematic issues found on listening studies in Communication, with a special focus on relations with the fields of Aesthetics and Performance Studies. Recognizing the trajectory and transformations of the concept of listening, we establish three axes on which the correlation between listening and communication are anchored: the debate on performance; the very notion of what constitutes an experience; and the craft of listening as a critical and inventive fabulation of possible futures and existences. At the conclusion, we point to the power of studies focused on oratures, oralitures and listening as conditions for the possibility of comprehension of what eludes speech.

Key words
Listening; Performance; Experience; Decoloniality; Fabulation