Sascia Pellegrini Displaced Identities: the discipline of the body through sound conditioning Keywords: phenomenology, emplacement, visual representation, kinesthetic, acoustic communication, aesthetic, virtual reality. Abstract This paper examines how sound operates as a device to construct the habitus and condition the body's behaviour, its gestures and boundaries, within everyday habits of urban and suburban social life. In the name of safety, bodies, more often than not, are requested to move in predetermined pathways, railroaded into gestural and behavioural patterns determined by norms considered socially acceptable, advisable, and adequate. Traffic lights, subway gates, train doors, electronic devices, lift and office doors, shopping malls, universities and public buildings, cars, engines and construction work sites, public toilets: only a provisional list of social sites equipped with sounds, alarms, and most likely announcements to suggest, enforce and ratify normative gestures. Aural, visual, and tactile stimuli which are put in place in any social milieu: a redundancy of signs to condition the body. This paper therefore investigates the enforcement of the unambiguous, the making of factuality and factography (the mapping of reality) through sound: how historically, perception, navigation, and fruition of space has been engineered and manipulated by social, cultural, and economical interests through sound produced, sound recorded, and more generally through sound identities collectively established or imposed. I inspect how the auditory reconstruction of reality has repercussions on the perceptual field: a multilayered mapping of the real through devices (analog and digital alike) which generate soundographies, olfactographies, tasteographies, and tactileographies of everyday life. I therefore argue that these chartograpies, sound-maps, matrices, and chronologies (of which eponyms are calendars and recurrences) are designed with the purport to maintain social order: a status quo, a conditioning of behaviours and habits in a given habitus of the senses, and sound distinctly. 1