Bureau for Listening
faile attempts at listening / failure as a strategy for listening
Failed Attempts at Listening is a thought-provoking exploration of how embracing failure can deepen our practice of listening. This work challenges traditional notions of understanding, inviting readers to engage with dissonance and uncertainty as pathways to genuine connection. By proposing failure as a generative strategy, it encourages a continual process of questioning and reorientation in our ways of knowing and being. Ideal for those seeking to enrich their relational and critical engagement with the world through the art of listening.
'To listen, then, is to fail at understanding in the traditional sense. It is to tremble and await, to dream, to explore and to remain open to the dissonance that arises in the encounter with otherness. Through failure, we come to realize that understanding is not a final destination but a continual process of questioning and renegotiation. Listening as failure is not about getting it right; ; it is about staying with the messiness, the uncertainty, and the profound unknowing that is necessary for true connection.
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Published by Bureau for listening, 2025
Music & Sound
Price: 10€
