From its use in literary theory film criticism and the discourse of games design Salomé
Voegelin expands 'possible world theory' to think the worlding of sound in music in art and in
the everyday. The modal logic of possible worlds articulated principally via David K. Lewis
and developed through Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological life-worlds creates a view on
the invisible slices of the world and reflects on how to make them count politically and
aesthetically. How to make them thinkable and accessible as the possibility of the everyday and
of art: to reach a new materialist understanding from the invisible and to develop an ear for
the as yet inaudible. This revised edition continues Voegelin's exploration of the sonic
possibility of the world into the sonic possibility and impossibility of the body. Listening to
work by Áine O'Dwyer Hannah Silva and Jocy de Oliveira it considers sonic possible worlds'
radical power to rethink normative constructions and to fabulate a different body from its
sound: Hearing the Continuum Between Plural Bodies between humans humanoid aliens monsters
vampires plants things and anything we have no name for yet but which a sonic philosophy
might start to hear and call.
