- Publisher: *cf.
- 341 pages
- Author: Nina Dragičević
- Original title: Kako zveni oblast? Zvočnost birokracije v vsakdanjem življenju
How Does Power Sound? is a pioneering work in the Slovenian space. Nina Dragičević explores the eponymous question through the sphere of bureaucracy and its impacts on everyday life: how do the power relations sound, then? By intertwining Marxist and feminist theory, the Frankfurt School and post-structuralism, the analysis of fiction and film, but particularly through her excurses into the actual places of bureaucracy in Slovenia, Dragičević establishes a new sociological method – a method of critical listening – which helps her point out the invisible yet omnipresent mechanisms of authority. Where sonority seems not to exist, Dragičević still finds it. Where bureaucracy seems universal, she draws attention to the sonic expression of class hierarchies. Finally, Dragičević provides us with the vocabulary for the sociological study of sound and, more precisely, introduces the new research concepts of panauralism and circular machinism. She doesn’t understand sonority – both verbal and non-verbal, sonorous and non-sonorous – as self-evident, a given, but as constitutive elements in formulating, maintaining, and regenerating the power relations.
Nina Dragičević
Nina Dragičević (1984) is a writer and composer who holds a PhD in sociology. She is Werner Düttmann Fellow 2023 (Akademie der Künste, Berlin), the recipient of Dr. Ana Mayer Kansky Award 2023, the Jenko Award (2021), the Župančič Award (2020), and two Knights of Poetry Awards (2018). In 2018, she was presented with the University of Ljubljana Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding Academic Success and the Faculty of Social Sciences Outstanding Study Achievement Award (2018).
She is also a poet, essayist and composer. She holds a PhD in Sociology. She is the author of Kdo ima druge skrbi (Who’s Got Other Concerns; Škuc, 2014), Slavne neznane (The Famous Unknown; Škuc, 2016), Med njima je glasba (There Is Music between Them; Parada ponosa, 2017), Ljubav reče greva (Luv Says Let’s Go; Škuc, 2019) and To telo, pokončno (This Body, Standing; Škuc, 2021). Her texts have been translated into English, Serbian, Croatian, Ger- man, Czech, Spanish and Portuguese. Dragičević is a member of the Slovene Writer’s Association and the Slovene PEN Centre.
She is the recipient of the 2021 Jenko Award and the 2020 Župančič Award. In 2018, she won The Knight of Poetry competition, and was the first in its history to receive both the Jury Award and the People’s Choice Award. She was nominated for kritiško sito and the Veronika Award. She was also presented the Outstanding Achievement Award of the University of Ljubljana. In 2018, she was shortlisted for the European award Palma Ars Acustica.
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