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Сонические эпистемологии
Pre-modern sound practices can be defined as practices that activate things and processes with minimal intervention. Their infinitely diverse cosmos, however, did not help them become a significant part of the world of scientific rationality, which they ceded to numerical and formulaic precision at the expense of another type of precision—sonic. An arbitrary idiosyncrasy toward sound determined the fate of all Western science, but the new field of sound epistemology is, before our very eyes, reclaiming a missed historical opportunity to think with and about sound, now on a new basis. These new foundations already take into account the division between sound practices and auditory techniques that emerged in connection with the modern capitalization and commodification of sound, and compel us to recognize auditory epistemologies as a field distinct from sonic epistemologies. If auditory epistemologies explore sound, then sonic epistemologies reflect, speak, and research through sound. Thus, the task of sonic epistemologies is to retain the critical potential and use auditory epistemologies as an alternative to formalized, industrialized and commodified sound experience.