Institutional Exteriority: A Theory of Sound, Art, and the Institutional Capture of Events develops a theory of how events become available for handling, reference, comparison, preservation, and capture. The book asks how an event enters handling: how it is localized, how it becomes established as a referable unit, how it opens transferability, and how it becomes connected to procedures of institutional capture. Its concern is not the identity of music, art, work, or practice, but the oper...