Leonardo Cardoso is Associate Professor and Section Chair of Visual, Material, and Performance Cultures. He is the author of Sound-Politics in São Paulo (Oxford University Press, 2019), which considers how noise has become a persistent problem in urban centers. His research interests include Science and Technology Studies, Sound Studies, Actor-Network Theory, noise, sound art, signification, politics, law, ethnography, Latin America, and urban studies. Cardoso’s current book project examines modern statecraft in Brazil through acoustic technologies such as wiretaps, sirens, and geolocation systems.