{"product_id":"sound-museum","title":"Sound Museum","description":"\u003cb\u003eA combination of fiction and documentation, \u003ci\u003eSound Museum \u003c\/i\u003efearlessly interrogates state-sanctioned violence and the psychology--and banality--of evil.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Iran, a curator has gathered foreign journalists for a VIP tour of her latest creation. As the guests sit to listen to her initial remarks, she shares the struggles she's faced in bringing together this exhibition--especially the gender inequity she's battled for her entire career. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut the Sound Museum is no ordinary institution. It is a museum of torture, wrought from the audio recordings pulled from interrogation rooms and prison cells. And the curator--her unbroken monologue drifting through fieldwork examples, case studies, archives, philosophy, and dreams--is only too happy to share her part in this globe-spanning industry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith sensuous and lyrical prose, \u003ci\u003eSound Museum\u003c\/i\u003e bears witness while calling into question the act of witnessing, underlining complicities in systems of power and drawing the reader into the uncomfortable position of confronting one woman's psyche: evil, yet completely blind to her own depravity.","brand":"Coffee House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51947286724839,"sku":"9781566896993","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_7da6eede-bcd5-4acd-859d-6eba6af7d983.jpg?v=1775485994","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/sound-museum","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}