ISBN: 978-3-9825585-4-7
15 x 21 cm (softcover; open binding)
84 pages
Published: February 2024

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Nina Dragičević, PhD, is a poet, a sound artist and a sociologist. The author of the books Kdo ima druge skrbi (2014; Who has Other Worries), Slavne neznane (2016; Famous Unknowns), Med njima je glasba (2017; The Music Between Them), Ljubav reče greva (2019; Lover Says Let’s Go), To telo, pokončno (2021; This Body, Standing), Kako zveni oblast? (2022; Sound of Power), and Ampak, kdo? (2023; But Who?), and numerous sound compositions, Dragičević has been awarded the Dr Ana Mayer Kansky Prize 2023, the Jenko Award 2021, the Župančič Award 2020, the Knight of Poetry Award 2018, and was the Palma Ars Acustica 2018 finalist.

Auditory Poverty and its Discontents
Nina Dragičević

Where sounding is understood as an exhibition of activity, vitality, and power, Nina Dragičević proposes that we analyse sonic phenomena in econo-political terms. In this essay – or is it perhaps a long love poem? – she dives into the sounding-listening dynamics and reveals them as class relations in which audibility is not an event following an occurrence of sound but a point in an intersectional class structure. With audibility, or rather the lack thereof, comes auditory poverty. And where there is poverty, there is discontent. And where there is discontent, there is potential for an uprising.

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