{"product_id":"sound-museum-9781566896993","title":"Sound Museum","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA combination of fiction and documentation, \u003ci\u003eSound Museum\u003c\/i\u003e fearlessly interrogates state-sanctioned violence and the psychology--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eand banality\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eof evil. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Iran, a curator has gathered foreign journalists for a VIP tour of her latest creation. As the guests sit to listen to her initial remarks, she shares the struggles she's faced in bringing together this exhibition--especially the gender inequity she's battled for her entire career. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut the Sound Museum is no ordinary institution. It is a museum of torture, wrought from the audio recordings pulled from interrogation rooms and prison cells. And the curator--her unbroken monologue drifting through fieldwork examples, case studies, archives, philosophy, and dreams--is only too happy to share her part in this globe-spanning industry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith sensuous and lyrical prose, \u003ci\u003eSound Museum\u003c\/i\u003e bears witness while calling into question the act of witnessing, underlining complicities in systems of power and drawing the reader into the uncomfortable position of confronting one woman's psyche: evil, yet completely blind to her own depravity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Coffee House Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/22\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781566896993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.90h x 4.40w x 0.60d","brand":"Poupeh Missaghi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44589946503349,"sku":"9781566896993","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_de18bd85-cf27-4a27-9851-d0b335841a76.jpg?v=1724734263","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/sound-museum-9781566896993","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}