Long TextExercise 75 of 81

The relationship between sound and political authority is older and more intimate than most accounts of power acknowledge. Long before the invention of writing, the capacity to be heard - literally, physically heard - over a large assembled group was an indispensable prerequisite of leadership. The voice that carried…

• What original connection between sound and authority does the writer establish?
• How does the writer reinterpret the architectural history of political spaces?