Размышляя о звуке, близости и отдаленности в опыте переживания западного типа: случай Одиссея и его Walkman

Логос. 2026. Т. 36. № 1. С. 135–164.

Булл М.

Translator: Л. Р. Ганжа, Жиганов М. Д.

In the world of Walkman consumers, as in the world of Siegfried Kracauer’s radio listeners, space is populated by the sounds of the cultural industry, delivered directly to their ears. As with Odysseus, their sound world is constructed through the transmission of sounds from outside, except that the siren voice—domesticated and mechanically reproduced—poses no threat. Furthermore, their own listening does not interfere with the listening of others, but forces them to inhabit their own private and mediated sound world. The fragility of this space is transformed into its security, as it surrounds itself with signs of an imagined, reassuring presence in the form of a specially selected sound. Subjects of such sound consumption are simultaneously colonizers and colonized: they deny all distinctions in order to inhabit a transcendent and safe space of experience, a managed and controlled space that becomes a sonic shell that shelters them. Turning to the intimacy of the world, experienced through mediatized and technologized sound, is achieved by bringing this world into order through the act of its privatization and subsequently becomes a familiar backdrop to the everyday experience of Walkman users.

Keywords: proximity, ontological security, онтологическая безопасность, distance, отдаленность, Walkman, auditory space, siren voice, privatized spaces, aesthetic control, Walkman, пространство слуха, голос сирен, приватизированные пространства, эстетический контроль, близость