John Mowitt

TL;DR: The first volume of The Man Without Qualities as mentioned in this paper was published in 1931, but from the first chapter, remarkably enough, nothing follows. As a consequence that was foreseen therefore, but largely aleatory, the novel remains unfinished.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine a South African genealogy of the differentiation between sound and noise, a differentiation whose juridical (and thus political) instantiation draws essential and immediate attention to the figure of the neighbor, especially as the neighbor embodies a distinctly sonic nuisance.

TL;DR: This article argued that there is nothing significant about a literary text (whether it be contradictions or moral values) which is not determined in relation to a particular historical society by a specific act of interpretation.