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Transmission: Sound, Affect, and Joy Division/New Order

September 27, 2011 · by Robin James · in Bauhaus, Blue Monday, Everyday Is Halloween, Jasbir Puar, Joy Division, Ministry, New Order, peter murphy, Sound and Sensibility, Transmission

This post is a very, very initial attempt to sketch a theory of “transmission.” I develop this idea of transmission in conversation with Jasbir Puar, Joy Division, and Bauhaus. Transmission is an sound-based concept, an attempt to theorize from “the…

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