Discordant Democracy: Noise, Affect, Populism, and the Presidential Campaign

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: listening to the savage heart of the American dream
	Feeling democracy
	Key concepts
	Outline and notes on style
	Notes
	Bibliography
2. Ethnography: getting spun as method
	Getting spun: being in the middle
	The sonic gears of spin
	Embracing economimesis and the mimetic mode as ethnographic stance
	Adcult, or being the ad
	Non-transcendent ethnography
	Post-script/ion: a note on reading, a note to the reader
	Notes
	Bibliography
3. The campaign as modern magic
	Campaign magic
	The performance of magic
	The prestige
	Campaign advertising: magic in gray
	Myth
	The imagination
	Mysticism
	Modern-day shamans
	The democratizing enchantment of the ear
	Notes
	Bibliography
4. Prelude: the noise of politics / the politics of noise
	Notes
	Bibliography
5. Sonic democracy: the noise is the signal
	The political you
	Noise: power and pliability
	Feeling noise
	Listening to noise
	You: combining noise and signal
	Conclusion: a noisy society
	Notes
	Bibliography
6. The passions of politics: affect, empathy, and sound
	Merging theories of affect
	Affect and opinion
	Notes
	Bibliography
7. The populist sensorium: the politics of sounding and the performance of listening
	Notes
	Bibliography
8. Our politics: deafened and dumbstruck
	Synesthesia
	Politics: deafened and dumbstruck
	Deaf and dumb in Texas
	Does anyone out there (in Washington) listen?
	Notes
	Bibliography
9. Conclusion: in defense of noise
	Notes
	Bibliography
Index