"for what has not yet been heard": Sonic Resistance in Women’s Experimental Film Culture

This chapter explores how experimental women filmmakers mobilise sound as a site of resistance within moving-image culture, focusing on practices that destabilise conventional audiovisual synchrony. Through the lens of Abigail Child’s Mutiny (1982–3), it develops the concept of “sonic elongation”: the process by which sound stretches away from its visual anchor to become unfamiliar, ambiguous, and interpretive. Sonic elongation unsettles cinematic expectation by dislocating sound from image, creating moments of rupture that expose film’s materiality and demand new, active forms of listening. Tracing its genealogy through musique concrète, feminist film theory, and interdisciplinary histories of art and music, the chapter situates this technique as a crucial aesthetic and political strategy for women artists. In challenging synchronicity, filmmakers contest the patriarchal structures embedded in cinematic traditions, foregrounding labour, embodiment, and marginalised voices. Sonic elongation provides a connective tissue between experimental film, the sonic arts, and feminist practice: it is both a compositional technique and a feminist gesture that resists the normalisation of sound, image, and gendered representation. By privileging noise, rupture, and dissonance, women’s experimental film cultures cultivate an oppositional audiovisuality that renders audible what Child describes as “what has not yet been heard.

Embodied Interaction and Audio-Visuals in Performing Arts

With the emergence of technologies for collecting data for the body, such as motion tracking and biosignal sensing, there has been an interest in using these technologies in performing arts. In such performance settings, this data has been mapped to different types of output, such as audio-visuals. In this chapter, we discuss the intersection of embodied interaction, performing arts and audio-visual practice. In particular, we will present two lines of work, one exploring audio-visuals in contemporary dance (the Moving Digits project) and another combining gesture, electronic music, and visuals (works by Atau Tanaka). From the analysis of these two lines of work and related projects, we map out the area of embodied interaction in performative audio-visual practice and identify relevant categories

Override: An Experiment in Interrupting the Congruity of Audio-Visual Relationships Across Analogue and Digital Domains

Override is an experimental mixed reality series designed to disrupt the usual fusion of sight and sound through using mobile phones and noise-cancelling headphones on double-decker buses. Participants experience visual journeys on the phone that are intentionally mismatched in directionality with accompanying sounds, while the actual motion and views from the bus introduce further complexity. The project leverages kinetic sensation to interrupt habitual sensory integration, highlighting the complexity of multisensory experience. This chapter draws on several theoretical perspectives to examine Override’s approach to understand how the brain integrates sensory signals. The concept of synchresis is discussed to understand how audio-visual signals tend to fuse spontaneously, and how this can be deliberately disrupted. Additionally, the chapter draws on sound studies, hybrid reality art, and sensory philosophy to situate override within broader artistic and philosophical frameworks. Therefore it explores how sensing and sense-making are continuously negotiated across memory, imagination, and expectation through working with hybrid environments that blend virtual and real-world elements

Interpretable AI for Racial Harm and Platform Trust: A Mixed-Method Framework for Analysing Social Media Racism Narratives

Racialised harm on social media impacts the psychological wellbeing, participation, and online safety of marginalised Communities. Yet automated moderation systems often function as opaque classifiers, frequently misinterpreting expressions of racial trauma, especially justified anger as toxicity. This paper presents an interpretable NLP framework for analysing racial harm in UK social media contexts, using survey data from 809 participants, including 408 narrative accounts of racially motivated abuse. The hybrid pipeline integrates domain-specific lexical sentiment scoring, TF–IDF topic modelling, and zero-shot transformer emotion inference with token-level attribution to ensure transparency. The model achieves balanced performance (F1 = 0.79) while preserving contextual interpretability. Thematic and emotional analyses reveal clusters of anti-Black abuse, Islamophobia, COVID-related anti-Asian hostility, and xenophobic rhetoric, with anger, sadness, and fear emerging as dominant and legitimate harm responses. Qualitative insights indicate low trust in reporting systems and limited platform accountability. Overall, the framework demonstrates that accuracy and interpretability can be jointly achieved, supporting transparent and accountable approaches to online harm analysis

Anosognosia for aphasia: Impact of statistical biases and aphasia severity

Objective: Anosognosia for aphasia is a condition in which patients may show reduced awareness of their language deficits. Statistical biases that may arise when people with very mild or very severe aphasia are included in group studies have raised concerns about the validity of self-report measures. Given these concerns, the interplay of cognitive biases such as the Dunning-Kruger effect (DKE) should be considered during assessment. Method: A sample of 66 individuals with a unilateral left-hemisphere brain lesion completed a standardised aphasia assessment and an awareness measure to evaluate the frequency and extent of anosognosia and overestimation of language difficulties, and to evaluate the possible impact of statistical biases. Results: The results showed a significant percentage (37.9%) of patients with pathological or borderline distorted awareness, with a tendency to underestimate (25.8%) rather than overestimate (6.1%) language deficits. No association was found between aphasia severity and awareness levels, even when individuals with very mild or very severe aphasia were accounted for. Conclusions: Findings suggest that unawareness for language difficulties cannot be solely attributed to statistical biases, and that individuals with aphasia may not be fully aware of their difficulties

Feminist killjoy survival and solidarities against institutional violence: a conversation between Sara Ahmed and Akanksha Mehta

This is an edited excerpt of a conversation between feminist scholars Sara Ahmed and Akanksha Mehta that took place on 8 March 2024 (International Women’s Day) at The Feminist Library in Peckham, South East London, UK. The gathering marked the release of the paperback version of Sara’s book The Feminist Killjoy Handbook, and was a space for building feminist queer solidarities. This conversation addresses themes of institutional violence in universities and higher education (particularly in the UK), thinking through the fights, tasks, tools, actions, and projects for surviving, mobilizing, and working in/against these institutions. In doing so, it centres larger feminist discussions on solidarity, resistance, pedagogy, organizing, complaints, and activism, and, of course, it remains haunted by past, continued, and unfolding violence

What works in behavioural recognition? A systematic review

Over the last few decades, a growing evidence base for investigative interviewing techniques has informed practitioners and policy-makers worldwide and promoted ethical information elicitation. Many of these techniques rely on elements of behavioural recognition (i.e., our ability to accurately interpret a behavioural or emotional response) to improve communication and cooperation. The current systematic review examined existing literature on ‘what works’ in behavioural recognition across multiple disciplines to address the following question: can we accurately interpret the dynamic behaviour of others? A total of 55 research articles were evaluated, discovering mixed findings across multiple areas. Demographics, individual differences (e.g., emotional intelligence), interview parameters (e.g., contextual knowledge and motivation), interview strategies (e.g., cue detection and thought strategies), and interviewee presentation were all important areas of consideration. However, most importantly, the findings suggests that behavioural recognition is a trainable skill, highlighting the need for further empirical research to be conducted in this area

The Image of Black Western Journalists in Novels: Fact or Fiction?

The IJPC Journal, Volumes 11 and 12 - Fall 2023 - Spring 2026. The DEI backlash in the United States and the United Kingdom is harming journalism, which is already in crisis. News organizations are not fulfilling their ethical requirement to reflect society via the content they produce, nor the people who produce it. Those bearing the brunt of these failures are Black women, who are among the most underrepresented groups in editorial roles in US and UK newsrooms. A lack of diversity in journalism, racial or otherwise, contributes to the worsening democratic deficit, as audiences receive skewed or inaccurate views of their country and the world. This paper argues that fictionalized accounts of Black women journalists, written by Black women authors who have lived experience of the British and US journalistic fields, offer important insight into frequently overlooked perspectives. In doing so, this paper centers the importance of popular culture to challenge power in ways ‘mainstream’ Western news outlets are largely failing to do

The neurotic parent: Affect, risk and school choice

The original neoliberal policy design for school choice is quite straightforward: parents exercise school choice as rational consumers pursuing competitive familial advantage through cost-benefit analysis and self-interest. In contrast to these narrow, instrumental accounts of school choice, critical education researchers insist that school choice is characterised by complex intransitive preferences and emotions that are deeply personal and social. The idea being that school choice is shaped not only by calculation and clinical detachment, but by anxieties and insecurities that evade the standard rationality presupposed by public choice and rational choice perspectives. Adding to this growing body of literature, this paper documents the dynamics of school choice as affectively organised behaviour. We draw on Isin’s (2004) concept of the ‘neurotic citizen’ to show how school choice architecture, such as school websites, appear to overlay and encourage seemingly conflicting orientations to choice: rational calculation and affective insecurity. Through a case study of the South Australian preschool sector, this paper documents how schools create affective atmospheres that work to both soothe and intensify parental fears and anxieties. These insights point to strategies in the management of neurosis or ‘governing through neurosis’

Masks and Mirrors: Concealment and Disclosure in Ralph Eugene Meatyard’s The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater (1969-1972)

This article examines the use of masks in the American photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard’s (1925-1972) posthumously published photo-book The Family Album of LucyBelle Crater (1974). For Meatyard, the spectral feature of photography – to make the invisible visible and vice versa - materializes itself in the use of masks as essential props designed to foreground not only a sense of secrecy and concealment, but also photography’s profoundly unstable ontological status. The use of masks enables an investigation into a form of spectral disorientation that resists the homogenization of time and space within photography, whilst at the same time allowing for a series of intimate portraits of the photographer’s friends and family. While introductions to exhibitions and catalogues on Meatyard have noted the presence of the uncanny in the LucyBelle Crater series, the use of masks in relation to his use of framing and positioning of figures has yet to be examined. By looking at individual photographs, the ontological hyper-awareness of Meatyard’s captions and literary references becomes another way to defamiliarize space and turn it into a fruitful staging ground, allowing Meatyard to render photography as a transformative rather than purely representational act