TY - GEN A1 - Eckstein, Lars T1 - Sound matters BT - postcolonial critique for a viral age T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe N2 - This essay proposes a reorientation in postcolonial studies that takes account of the transcultural realities of the viral twenty-first century. This reorientation entails close attention to actual performances, their specific medial embeddedness, and their entanglement in concrete formal or informal material conditions. It suggests that rather than a focus on print and writing favoured by theories in the wake of the linguistic turn, performed lyrics and sounds may be better suited to guide the conceptual work. Accordingly, the essay chooses a classic of early twentieth-century digital music – M.I.A.’s 2003/2005 single “Galang” – as its guiding example. It ultimately leads up to a reflection on what Ravi Sundaram coined as “pirate modernity,” which challenges us to rethink notions of artistic authorship and authority, hegemony and subversion, culture and theory in the postcolonial world of today. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 119 KW - Sound KW - M.I.A KW - Galang KW - music KW - postcolonial critique KW - transculturality KW - pirate modernity KW - Great Britain KW - South asian diaspora Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-98393 SN - 1866-8380 IS - 119 ER -