ABSTRACT
In Chapter 2 I made a distinction between emergent listening and the more usual taken-for-granted practices of listening. I explored the idea that these are not entirely separate ways of listening, but linked to lines of flight on one hand and striations on the other, which actually depend on each other. In this chapter I want to think about the nature of the subject who might listen or be listened to.1 What I anticipate is an entangled intra-action between, on the one hand, listening-as-usual, where the subject who is listening or being listened to has a hearable, recognizable identity, and on the other hand, emergent listening, where the subject is not so much an entity as an intraactive becoming. As with lines of ascent and descent, I anticipate that these two kinds of subject cannot actually be separated, and that they too depend on each other.
