The Force of Listening explores the role of listening at the
intersection of contemporary art and activism, and asks what
transformations listening might facilitate in the world. Written as a
constructed dialogue, The Force of Listening draws from conversations
with artists, activists and political thinkers which took place during
2013-14, in the aftermath of the wave of protests and occupations
against austerity.
Artists Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri, media theorist Nick Couldry,
philosopher Adriana Cavarero and members of Ultra-red and Precarious
Workers Brigade as well as feminist consciousness-raising groups meet on
the page to tackle questions of listening, attention and
interconnection, collectivity, solidarity and resonance, the politics of
the voice and the ethics of listening, the challenges of institutional
frameworks and their reflections on the Occupy movement.