Resonant Knowledge: Towards an Epistemology of Listening

Abstract

Starting from the premise that European modernity established an epistemological paradigm based on rationalism, logocentrism and formal logic, among other attributes that respond to what Marshall McLuhan called “visual space”, this paper raises the need to generate a new socio-cognitive paradigm inspired by the mcluhanian notion of “acoustic space”. Based on authors such as Steven Feld, Jean-Luc Nancy and Carlos Lenkersdorf, this text leads to a series of propositions that, taken together, constitute a personal epistemological perspective, in which listening and resonance serve as central principles, and as points of departure for a reflection on the ethical and pedagogical implications that “resonant knowledge” brings with it.