James A. Steintrager is Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and European Languages and Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Rey Chow is Anne Firor Scott Professor of Literature at Duke University.

Acknowledgments  vii Sound Objects: An Introduction / James A. Steintrager, with Rey Chow  1 I. Genealogies 1. Reflections on the Sound Object and Reduced Listening / Michel Chion  23 2. Pierre Schaeffer and the (Recorded) Sound Source / John Dack  33 3. The Fluctuating Sound Object / Brian Kane  53 II. Aural Reification, Sonic Commodification 4. Listening with Adorno, Again: Nonobjective Objectivity and the Possibility of Critique / James A. Steintrager  73 5. Spectral Objects: On the Fetish Character of Music Technologies / Jonathan Sterne  94 III. Acousmatic Complications 6. Listening after "Acousmaticity": Notes on a Transdisciplinary Problematic / Rey Chow  113 7. The Skin of the Voice: Acousmatic Illusions, Ventriloquial Listening / Pooja Rangan  130 IV. Sound Abjects and Nonhuman Relations 8. The Acoustic Abject: Sound and the Legal Imagination / Veit Erlmann  151 9. The Alluring Objecthood of the Heartbeat / Jairo Moreno and Gavin Steingo  167 10. On Nonhuman Sound—Sound as Relation / Georgina Born  185 V. Memory Traces 11. The Sound of Arche-Cinema / John Mowitt  211 12. Listening to the Sirens / Michael Bull  228 13. Entities Inertias Faint Beings: Drawing as Sounding / David Toop  246 Bibliography  265 Contributors  281 Index  285