Soundings

Question 1

Cochlear Implant

Answer 1

A device that delivers electrical signals directly to the auditory nerve.

Question 2

Mills “Do Signals have Politics?”

Answer 2

situates this cochlear implant technology in the long history of eugenicist attempts to promote oralism through the medical eradication of deafness and through pedagogical bans on sign language

Question 3

What does Mills refer to as “cross-purpose collaboration?”

Answer 3

Social norms, medical ideas, and commercial interests have vied with the needs and preferences of deaf people in the construction of implant technology

Question 4

Deaf Space

Answer 4

Space designed for those who don’t hear?

Question 5

Deaf Gain

Answer 5

The idea that deaf people have very interesting perspectives on life and that deafness is not a disability

Question 6

Sonic Warfare

Answer 6

how weaponry and logistic, tactical, and strategic conditions serve to catalyze and pressure convergence, reconnection, and innovation in media and that all other cultural deployments serve merely to camouflage a militarization of the minutiae of urban existence

Question 7

Morris & Music Platforms

Answer 7

A purchase no longer invests the listener in a particular band or artist but rather in an entire catalogue of music and in a particular mode of receiving curated (algorithmic or tastemaker based) recommendations to navigate that catalogue