Sonic Fiction

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Extradition: What Is Sonic Fiction? A Force of Liberation Enforced Landianisms More Like a Group of Otoliths
1. Sonic Thinking: A Mixillogic MythScience of Mutantextures The Mythscience of Sonic Warfare The Mixillogics of Sonic Epistemologies The Mutantextures of Sonic Possible Worlds What Is Sonic Thinking?
2. Social Progress: Sensibilities of the Implex Dath's Mixillogics The Dialectics of the Implex Valery's Sensibilities Even Wrong Ideas Can Be Made True
3. Black Aurality: Alien Sonic Nontologies Black Aurality The Diffraction of Mythscience Alter Nation, AlterDestiny & Autohistoria Decolontologies
4. Sensory Epistemologies: Syrrhesis and Sensibility The Body of the Researcher Syrrhesis Fiction Beyond the Idiosyncrasy of Logocentrism Multiplying Epistemologies
5. Acid Communism: A Haunted Utopia of Sound Anticipation and Compulsion Ghosts of Our Times Theories That Are Embodied Acid Communism
6. NON: Ultrablack Resistance Ultrablackness NON Rhythmight Ultrablack Resistance Inconclusion: Six Heuristics for Critique and Activism Sonic Fiction as Activism Sonic Fiction as Critique Heuristics of the Sonic Notes References Index

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Sonic fiction is everywhere: in conversations about vernacular culture, in music videos, sound art compositions and on record sleeves, in everyday encounters with sonic experiences and in every single piece of writing about sound. Where one can find sounds one will also detect bits of fiction. In 1998 music critic, DJ and video essayist Kodwo Eshun proposed this concept in his book “More Brilliant Than The Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction”. Originally, he did so in order to explicate the manifold connections between Afrofuturism and Techno, connecting them to Jazz, Breakbeat and Electronica. His argument, his narrations and his explorative language operations however inspired researchers, artists, and scholars since then. Sonic Fiction became a myth and a mantra, a keyword and a magical spell. This book provides a basic introduction to sonic fiction. In six chapters it explicates the inspirations for and the transformations of this concept; it explores applications and extrapolations in sound art and sonic theory, in musicology, epistemology, in critical and political theory. Sonic fiction is presented in this book as a heuristic for critique and activism.

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A rich and timely meditation on a concept central to sonic theory

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