The Sonic Criollo: before/after listening

Even though listening can only exist in conjunction with making yourself heard this is not something listening practices recognise. That is because their rationale is built from a mindset of the Global North. They want listening to be a plenitude, they want listening to be wise and empathic and provide a safe space for social, ecological and global justice. They want to encourage listening as they believe this will pave the way to tolerance and acceptance of difference and of otherness. But we in the South have never known justice and we know justice is never coming. Listening is not enough for us. In fact, sometimes we do not want to listen anymore.

Gregorio Fonten

Monstruous Nodes of Echolocation 

in  Dismantling the Nation published by Amherst College Press, 2023

The Sonic Criollo Trilogy