Index

Contents

Introduction................................................................. 11
1. Where to begin? ........................................................ 11
2. Aesthetic play, sound and sociology ..................................... 13
3. The importance of thinking-with ........................................ 14
4. A posture towards ...................................................... 15
5. Overview of the work ................................................... 16

THINKING WITH | The alienation of knowledge:
A theoretical frame .................................................... 21
1. For a sociology of sociological controversies ............................ 21
2. Defining the controversy............................................... 25
3. The roots and implications............................................. 29
4. The consequences in sociological thinking ............................. 35
5. The situation of knowledge ............................................ 40
6. Towards speculative fabulation? ....................................... 44
7. The necessity of a choice .............................................. 48

SOUND | From silent knowledge to sounding representations ................ 51
1. Knowledge has been made silent........................................ 51
2. The hegemony of the visual space ..................................... 53