Bodies, Noise and Power in Industrial Music

Jason Whittaker is Head of English and Journalism at the University of Lincoln. He mainly writes on the reception of William Blake, but also has published on digital technologies and culture as well as post-punk and industrial music. His most recent books include Tech Giants, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Journalism (2019) and Divine Images: The Life and Work of William Blake (2021).Elizabeth Potter is a PhD student at the University of York. Her thesis focuses on William Blake’s marginalia to The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1798). She analyses the manuscript notes on material and conceptual levels to provide insight into Blake’s aesthetics and artistic philosophies. Beyond her thesis, she is also interested in transatlantic studies, visual culture, and affect theory.

“This timely and diverse book presents accounts of new developments in industrial music. … this is a very pertinent update on the present condition of industrial music … . As a singular niche the music would appear by now to have well established itself … . ” (Clark Allison, internationaltimes.it, March 26, 2022)

• 1. My Body Disgusts Me: Swans, Biopolitics, and the Liberation of the Body; James McCrea.- 2. Nadafa: Women's Bodies in Arab Hip Hop and Industrial Music; Steve Collins, Rachael Gunn, Susie Khamis.- 3. "The Odds of the Body": Clipping and Escapaing the Power Hold on the Black Body; Daniel Gillespie.- 4. All Too Human: Industrial Bodies and Anti-Bodies in the Time of Aids; Jason Whittaker.- 5. Cabaret Voltaire: Industrial Dada; Ben Eyes.- 6. Chance Meeting: disembodied voices in the work of Nurse with Wound and Cabaret Voltaire; Rupert Loydell.- 7. The Last Attempt at Paradise: Early Industrial Culture in Kansas; Francis X. Connor.-  8. Industrial Music and Inner Experience: Aural Abrasion as a Window to Post-Subjectivity; Jay Fraser.- 9. The Occultural Side of Industrial: far from its Origins to Industrial Black Metal; M. Cecilia Marchetto Santorun.- 10. "Happiness and Slavery", or Industrial Erotic; Elizabeth Potter.