Shibboleth

Conflicted Phonemes, 2012, Lawrence Abu Hamdan with graphic designer Janna Ullrich.

Lawrence Abu Hamdan is an independent investigator or Private Ear with a great interest in the political use of sound and linguistics.

Conflicted Phonemes is made of vinyl wall prints and takeaway printed A4 sheets on a shelf. The prints visualize the complex relation between a person’s place of birth and linguistic identity, whilst also examining how itinerant and precarious social conditions and cultural exchange result in a hybridization of accents, thus questioning the efficacy of forensic technologies and practices of “bordering” conducted by Dutch immigration authorities.

I wish I could experience this work and the follow-up, also from 2012, The Freedom of Speech focusing on the UK’s controversial use of voice analysis to determine the origins and authenticity of asylum seekers’ accents. The Freedom of Speech is a mixed-media installation comprising a stereo audio documentary and an acoustic foam sculpture on the geopolitics of accents and listening practices that have led to shocking stories of wrongful deportations.

Judges 12:5-6 English Standard Version: they said to him, “Then say Shibboleth,” and he said, “Sibboleth,” for he could not pronounce it right. Then they seized him and slaughtered him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time 42,000 of the Ephraimites fell.

There are lots of articles on Abu Hamdan’s work. Here just one written by Emily Apter : Shibboleth: Policing by Ear and Forensic Listening in Projects by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, 2016 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, https://doi.org/10.1162/OCTO_a_00253    

Abstract: Drawing on the work of Lawrence Abu Hamdan, a British-Lebanese artist and researcher currently based in Beirut, this essay examines the juridical and conceptual field of critical forensis which is situated at the juncture of security studies, art, and architecture. Abu Hamdan extends forensics to the area of “new audibilities,” with a focus on the politics of juridical hearing in situations of legal-identity profiling and voice authentication (the “shibboleth test”). Abu Hamdan's projects investigate how accent monitoring and audio surveillance, voice recognition, translation technologies, sovereign acts of listening, and court determinations of linguistic norms emerge as so many technical constraints on “freedom of speech,” itself a malleable term ascribed to discrepant claims and principles, yet taking on performative force in site-specific situations.

Game of Thrones 6.08 'No One'

Fellas, is it gay...?

Thank you Drawfee for the food 🥺 Here’s a quick Sierra and Nevada sketch!

*Gillian Anderson finally put down her phone to celebrate castmate Elizabeth Debicki's win at the Golden Globes 2024📱💓🤣

(*Gillian wasn't this quick on her feet when she won her Emmy for The Crown 😉)

started binge playing the professor layton games and managed to make it to last specter so have some memo pad doods

Funny how had Liam not stopped Airy on time, Taylor would've unintentionally doomed another group of people to the same fate.

drew these the second socrates was revealed and forgot to post here WAH

Al Pacino is listed as the narrator of the Audible version of his memoir, "Sonny Boy," which will be published on Oct. 8. The listening time is set at 15 hours.

David Copperfield Quiz with Richard.

Losing my mcfreaking mind over origin Karlach Romancing Astarion and how he's practically in tears, like you can hear him sniffling, begging you to go to hell with him and then Karlach can say..no. and his little shaky intake of breath. 😖

Whumpdev=alive?????????

Just askin :3

yes!

chained in my basement, malnourished and mistreated, but not forgotten, and still very much alive.

unfortunately, college has been kicking my ass lately, and will continue to do so until i finish my master's thesis. the good news is that this will continue for only about a month before i have more time to work on the project! the bad news is that i have only about a month to finish the entire paper. :' )

here's a little screenshot from a story sequence to prove that the project has not been completely neglected and forgotten!

ok what is happening to Dan's book in Amazon Brazil??

i think it's obvious but all three of these consider that the book's genre is International Erotic Fiction. literally wtf

Some more cleaned-up doodles, sillier ones this time based on actual moments in canon ^u^

Sentences that only make sense if you know about some of Scribe and I's highly specific Back to the Future headcanons:

Scribe: Please imagine Lorraine McFly as one of the fandom olds on a fan message board frequented by Camila Noceda

No? This just CAN'T be the cover they choose to represent The Well of Loneliness.

(Going insane boinkinh one AU in my head)

Hey hey hey

May I interest you in

(Slowly slides my FaaF AU towards you but void just Disappears without a trace one day before the accolade)

Teehee