

This is defined as a biopolitical project of enclosure to surveil, secure, and destroy humans and nonhumans within a multidimensional warscape. The article thus expands on the concept of atmospheric warfare. All of these attempted to pacify and capture hostile circulations of life and place them within the secured and rationalized interiors of the U.S. national security has inherited and intensified the atmospheric forms of power deployed across Southeast Asia, including ecological violence, the electronic battlefield, counterinsurgency (the Phoenix Program), and drone surveillance. It argues that the conflict is crucial for understanding the security logics and spatialities of U.S. This article explores the violent geographies of the Vietnam War. This includes its contributions to shaping relations of power. By focusing on the role of sound in these regimes, our preliminary findings demonstrate the utility for the field of undertaking additional work to capture the wider significance of sound. Fourth, using sonic formations and the SHARP framework, we examine an illustrative case study: the nuclear deterrence and non-proliferation regimes.

Third, we make the case for analyzing sound's historicity, adaptability, relationality, and performativity (SHARP) in any given context. Second, we introduce “sonic formations” as a means of capturing how sound contributes to world politics. First, we differentiate the concept of sound from noise and show the importance of doing so. To capture these dynamics, we offer a set of conceptual frameworks to analyze sound. Drawing upon literature from cultural geography and sound studies, we argue that sound contributes to political dynamics that are constitutive of world politics. Sound matters for international political sociology.
