Naomi Waltham-Smith is a professor at the University of Oxford and Douglas Algar Tutorial Fellow at Merton College. She is the author of several books, including Music and Belonging Between Revolution and Restoration and Shattering Biopolitics: Militant Listening and the Sound of Life.

“How not just to listen but also to rethink the concept of listening in the context of free speech debates: this is Free Listening’s urgent question. To answer it, Naomi Waltham-Smith places Continental political philosophy in conversation with leading voices in Black, feminist, and decolonial thought. She translates complex, long-standing concepts and debates into terms legible to a broad public and offers a dramatic and far-reaching reconstruction of ethics understood as aural attention.”-Erin Graff Zivin, author of Anarchaeologies: Reading as Misreading

• ProvocationsSilencing ListeningListening at the Margins of the Philosophy of LibertyCaptive Playlistening: Cued Up SubjectsListening: It’s All the RageLies, Bullshit, and Sophistry: Vicious UniversitiesUnheard: Silence, Justice, RepairEars for a Minor Music: The End of ListeningNotes

Naomi Waltham-Smith is a professor at the University of Oxford and Douglas Algar Tutorial Fellow at Merton College. She is the author of several books, including Music and Belonging Between Revolution and Restoration and Shattering Biopolitics: Militant Listening and the Sound of Life.

“How not just to listen but also to rethink the concept of listening in the context of free speech debates: this is Free Listening’s urgent question. To answer it, Naomi Waltham-Smith places Continental political philosophy in conversation with leading voices in Black, feminist, and decolonial thought. She translates complex, long-standing concepts and debates into terms legible to a broad public and offers a dramatic and far-reaching reconstruction of ethics understood as aural attention.”-Erin Graff Zivin, author of Anarchaeologies: Reading as Misreading

• ProvocationsSilencing ListeningListening at the Margins of the Philosophy of LibertyCaptive Playlistening: Cued Up SubjectsListening: It’s All the RageLies, Bullshit, and Sophistry: Vicious UniversitiesUnheard: Silence, Justice, RepairEars for a Minor Music: The End of ListeningNotes