When moving around the city, we often rely on our eyesight, not paying attention to the fact that we are constantly haunted by a colossal variety of everyday noises. Proposing to trust the ear, American cultural scientist Brandon Labelle shows how our experience and the surrounding reality are dependent on the soundscape. In the logic of “acoustic territories” he proposed, sound becomes not just the background of everyday life, but an organizing force capable of setting new contours of social, political and cultural activity. Based on poetic metaphors, Labelle explores different levels of urban life, literally rushing from the bottom up - from the rumble of the subway to radio waves in the sky. As a result, we have one of the most striking books that brings together social anthropology, urban studies, philosophy and art theory and thanks to this helps to understand the role that sound plays in shaping the private and public spheres of our existence.