"By insisting on the primacy of vibration in the nexus of sound, affect, and power, Sonic Warfare charts a transdisciplinary micropolitics of frequency that breaks with the orthodoxies of phenomenology and cultural studies and triumphantly succeeds in immersing us in the present of viral capitalism, pirate media, and asymmetric warfare. Steve Goodman's incisive critiques of Marinetti, Kittler, Attali, Virilio, and Bachelard take their place alongside illuminating readings of Spinoza, Deleuze, Guattari, Whitehead, Serres and others; the result is a speculative intervention into contemporary modes of affective modulation and collective contagion that exceed any sonic theory previously published this decade. Sonic Warfare is rigorous, affirmative, sober, and pitiless: in its ambition, its purpose, and its passion, it is nothing short of a breakthrough for contemporary sonic thought."
—Kodwo Eshun, Course Director of Masters of Arts in Aural and Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London, and author of More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction

"In the beginning, there was rhythm. In Sonic Warfare, Steve Goodman surveys the soundscape in the midst of which we live today, tracking its various guises, from Jamaican dub soundsystems to US military infrasound crowd-control devices, from Muzak as mind-numbing sonic architecture to grime and dubstep as enhancers of postapocalyptic dread, and from the cosmic vibrations left behind by the Big Bang to the latest viral sound contagions."
—Steven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State University

"Sonic Warfare sends a shudder through the hidden underbelly of sound. With uncanny brilliance, Steve Goodman writes through the depths of sub-bass to bring together noise weapons, pirate radio, and the philosophy and politics of rhythm in a vivid new evocation of the power of sound."
—Matthew Fuller, David Gee Reader in Digital Media, Goldsmiths, University of London, author of Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture