Listening as Reciprocity

Heidegger’s Appropriation in Being-Time

Abstract

How does the soundscape bring awareness to states of being and senses of time?

Heidegger’s last lectures, Identity and Difference (1969) and On Time and Being (1972), advocate an end of philosophy so that the experience of Being is foregrounded rather than further abstracted. These treatises serve as a turn away from the metaphys- ics of Being, of linear conceptions of time-space toward a fourth dimension grounded profoundly in an experience of relationality, the unity of past, present and future in the constancy of approach. The always-already movement of insistent approach instantiates aware- ness of Being through reciprocal Appropriation (a key term) of time by Being and Being by time. This is a phenomenological turn that opens radical consideration of how sound works to position the listener in myriad acoustic fields diverging and converging, the soundscape vivified, where fierce reciprocity gifts awareness of self and world in profoundly experiential ways...