How do we navigate complexity; where should we put our ears and how do we hack our capacities to listen rather than bemoan or mis-recognize the li- mitations; what other possible worlds can we imagine through listening; how is enlightenment chrono-politically relevant for radical social evolutions in these necessarily de-colonial times; what sonic chrono-politics twist you up; how is enlightenment entered into through sound; how can we hypothetically construct a cosmic or universal logic for social intelligence through listening; how do we connect minds by sonifying layers of abstraction; what are dera- cinating gestures of abstraction, and what can they do to unmake normative thought patterns and behaviours that eat self-models (our own and those of our companions); how do we practice the erotics of listening with every person, species, thing or environment, with sound invisibly everywhere; how can we formalize listening; where do sound transformations transform you; how do we investigate sonic morpho-poetics as paths of discovery where triadic operations unveil multiple layers of codification–from over-coding to the nought(s) of thought; how do we listen to the nothing of nothing; why is sound, through every material transformation, a universal logic of eros?

If there would ever be a "fundamental" to Xenoethics, it might be that listening is an irrevocable convolution of the mind independent. In this workshop, combining forms of lecture and performance, d-n-e will investigate and abstract evolutionary steps and questions in relation to speculative topologies of listening–with complex sound transformations, in proposed techniques for deracinating computer music production.