On the occasion of the exhibition WITHIN / Infinite Ear in Bergen, Emma Mc-Cormick-Goodhart selected a series of texts collected in this reader through categories. Some of them are excerpts, and some are full texts. 

GESTURE/ASSEMBLY
Denis Diderot, Letter to the deaf and dumb for the use of those who hear and speak
Mike Gulliver, Deafscapes: The landscape and heritage of the Deaf world
Mike Gulliver, Banquet des sourds-muets: 122nd Anniversary of the Abbé de l’Epée
Jeffrey Mansfield,Space, Time and Gesture: Gestural Expression, Sensual Aesthetics and Crisis in Contemporary Spatial Paradigms
Louise Stern, Ismael and His Sisters

MECHANISM/APPARATUS
Charles Michel De L’epée, How the Deaf and Dumb may be brought to understand, in some measure, what it is to hear, audibus audire
Sheila Patek, Spiny lobsters stick and slip to make sounds

UNSOUND/(IM)PERCEPTION
Roald Dahl, The Sound Machine
Lendl Barcelos, Audition Under Sensory Deprivation

PROSTHESIS/DEVICE
Stefan Helmreich, Seashell Sound
Norbert Wiener, Sound Communication with the Deaf
Jonathan Sterne, Mediate Auscultation: The Social and Philosophical Basis of a Technique
Avital Ronell, The Deaf
Sophie Wolley, Cyborg
Sophie Wolley, I Am The Walrus

INTERARTICULATION
Michele Friedner and Stefan Helmreich, Sound Studies Meet Deaf Studies
H-Dirksen Bauman and Joseph Murray, Deaf Gain: An Introduction

ARCHITECTURE/ACOUSTICS
John Cage, Music Lovers’ Field Companion
Steve Goodman, 1999: Vibrational Anarchitecture
Ines Weizman, Tuning into the Void: The Aurality of Adolf Loos’s Architecture
Adolf Loos, The Mystery of Acoustics

MIND’S EAR
Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening Pieces
Veit Erlmann, Descartes’s Resonant Subject
Steven Connor, Auscultations

MATTER/NOISE
Steve Goodman, 13.7 Billion B.C.: The Ontology of Vibrational Force
Nabil Ahmed, Sounding Chaos
Lendl Barcelos, The Nuclear Sonic: Listening to Millennial Matter

TACTILITY
Madeline Gins, “Perception Has Got to Have a Body!”
John Varley, The Persistence of Vision

PARA-HEARING/IMAGINARY
Tom Mccarthy, Tintin and the Secret of Literature
Paul Feigelfeld, Kittler and the Sirens