Outputs (6)

Annihilating Noise (2020)
Book
Hegarty, P. (2020). Annihilating Noise. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing

Noise has become a model of cultural and theoretical thinking over the last two decades. Following Hegarty's influential 2007 book, Noise/Music, Annihilating Noise discusses in 16 essays how noise offers a way of thinking critical resistance, disrupt... Read More about Annihilating Noise.

Smearing Time: Critical Temporality and Corporate Ontology (2020)
Journal Article
Hegarty, P., & Genosko, G. (2020). Smearing Time: Critical Temporality and Corporate Ontology. Time and Society, 29(4), 1009-1023. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X20933479

Since 1972 a leap second has been introduced into global time standardization systems, due to the discrepancy between Coordinated Universal Time and International Atomic Time. Until recently, the leap second has been a consensual, if mildly uncanny a... Read More about Smearing Time: Critical Temporality and Corporate Ontology.

Peter Roehr: Field Pulsations (2018)
Book
Hegarty, P., & Hayden, S. (2018). Peter Roehr: Field Pulsations. (bilingual English/German). Cologne: Snoek

First book-length study of minimalist/pop artist Peter Roehr (1944-68). This book addresses the core themes in his work: repetition, found material, absence of content, minimalism, sound, film, objects, installations. It also considers his work as a... Read More about Peter Roehr: Field Pulsations.

Peter Gabriel: Global Citizen (2018)
Book
Hegarty, P. (2018). Peter Gabriel: Global Citizen. London: Reaktion Books

This book considers how Peter Gabriel's music, video, performance, multimedia work and political engagement amount to a shifting understanding of location and locatedness. This moves from personal, psychological, historical and mythical location to a... Read More about Peter Gabriel: Global Citizen.

In the absence of noise, nothing sounds: Blanchot and the performance of harsh noise wall (2018)
Journal Article
Hegarty, P. (2018). In the absence of noise, nothing sounds: Blanchot and the performance of harsh noise wall. Angelaki, 23(3), 112-124. https://doi.org/10.1080/0969725X.2018.1473933

Blanchot took Mallarmé’s “Book” as the paradigm for an artwork that aspired to such excess it could not exist. And yet it partly did, in the form of the poem Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard. For Blanchot, this ultimate literary work acted a... Read More about In the absence of noise, nothing sounds: Blanchot and the performance of harsh noise wall.

Rumour and Radiation: Sound in Video Art (2014)
Book
HEGARTY, P. (2015). Rumour and Radiation: Sound in Video Art. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing

This is a book about video art, and about sound art.

The thesis is that sound first entered the gallery via the video art of the 1960s and in so doing, created an unexpected noise. The early part of the book looks at this formative period and the... Read More about Rumour and Radiation: Sound in Video Art.