Search Results

ENGLISH

Aurality - Listening And Knowledge In Nineteenth-Century Colombia

by Ana Maria Ochoa Gautier

37,79€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 Ochoa Gautier's groundbreaking book draws primarily from nineteenth-century Colombian sources to explore how listening has been central to the production of notions of language, music, voice, and sound.
ENGLISH

A Resonant Ecology

by Max Ritts

~~27,03€~~ 24,33€ 10% OFF

free shipping

 Max Ritts traces how soundâ€™s integration into the environmental politics of Canadaâ€™s North Coast has paved the way for massive industrial expansion. Through a situated geographical approach, he makes the case that only a decolonial and multigenerational environmental politics can counter the false promise of â€œsustainable marine developmentâ€ held up by industry and the state.
ENGLISH

Knowing By Ear - Listening To Voice Recordings With African Prisoners Of War In German Camps (1915-1918)

by Anette Hoffmann

~~35,71€~~ 32,14€ 10% OFF

 During World War I, thousands of young African men conscripted to fight for France and Britain were captured and held as prisoners of war in Germany, where their stories and songs were recorded and archived by German linguists. In Knowing by Ear, Anette Hoffmann demonstrates that listening to these acoustic recordings as historical sources, rather than linguistic samples, opens up possibilities for new historical perspectives and the formation of alternate archival practices and knowledge production. She foregrounds the archival presence of individual speakers and positions their recorded voices as responses to their experiences of colonialism, war, and the journey from Africa to Europe. By engaging with the recordings alongside written sources, photographs, and artworks depicting the speakers, Hoffmann personalizes speakers from present-day Senegal, Somalia, Togo, and Congo. Knowing by Ear includes transcriptions of numerous recordings of spoken and sung texts, revealing acoustic archives as significant yet under-researched sources for recovering the historical speaking positions of colonized subjects and listen to the acoustic echo of colonial knowledge production.
ENGLISH

Unspooled - How The Cassette Made Music Shareable

by Rob Drew

~~35,71€~~ 32,14€ 10% OFF

 Well into the new millennium, the analog cassette tape continues to claw its way back from obsolescence. New cassette labels emerge from hipster enclaves while the cassette’s likeness pops up on T-shirts, coffee mugs, belt buckles, and cell phone cases. In Unspooled, Rob Drew traces how a lowly, hissy format that began life in office dictation machines and cheap portable players came to be regarded as a token of intimate expression through music and a source of cultural capital. Drawing on sources ranging from obscure music zines to transcripts of Congressional hearings, Drew examines a moment in the early 1980s when music industry representatives argued that the cassette encouraged piracy. At the same time, 1980s indie rock culture used the cassette as a symbol to define itself as an outsider community. Indie’s love affair with the cassette culminated in the mixtape, which advanced indie’s image as a gift economy. By telling the cassette’s long and winding history, Drew demonstrates that sharing cassettes became an acceptable and meaningful mode of communication that initiated rituals of independent music recording, re-recording, and gifting.
ENGLISH

Code - From Information Theory To French Theory

by Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan

35,71€ + 10% CARD

 Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan traces the shared intellectual and political history of computer scientists, cyberneticists, anthropologists, linguists, and theorists across the humanities as they developed a communication and computational-based theory that grasped culture and society in terms of codes.
ENGLISH

The Specter Of Materialism - Queer Theory And Marxism In The Age Of The Beijing Consensus

by Petrus Liu

27,03€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 Explores how relations of gender and sexuality get reconfigured to meet the needs of capital in new regimes of accumulation and dispossession. Liu challenges key premises of classic queer theory and Marxism, turning to an analysis of the Beijing Consensusâ€"global capitalismâ€™s latest mutationâ€"to develop a new theory of the political economy of sexuality.
ENGLISH

Code - From Information Theory To French Theory

by Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan

36,44€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan traces the shared intellectual and political history of computer scientists, cyberneticists, anthropologists, linguists, and theorists across the humanities as they developed a communication and computational-based theory that grasped culture and society in terms of codes.
ENGLISH

How Machines Came To Speak - Media Technologies And Freedom Of Speech

by Jennifer Petersen

38,36€ + 10% CARD

 Jennifer Petersen constructs a genealogy of the legal conceptions of what counts as "speech" within free speech law, showing how changes in media technology influenced changing legal definitions of speech.
ENGLISH

American Blockbuster - Movies, Technology, And Wonder

by Charles R. Acland

36,49€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 Charles R. Acland charts the origins, impact, and dynamics of the blockbuster, showing how it became a complex economic and cultural machine designed to advance popular support for technological advances.
ENGLISH

Information Activism - A Queer History Of Lesbian Media Technologies

by Cait Mckinney

31,08€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 Cait McKinney traces how lesbian feminist activists in the United States and Canada between the 1970s and the present developed communication networks, databases, and digital archives to use as a foundation for their feminist, antiracist, and trans-inclusive work.
ENGLISH

Seeing By Electricity - The Emergence Of Television, 1878-1939

by Doron Galili

37,84€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 Doron Galili traces television's early history, from the fantastical devices initially imagined fifty years before the first television prototypes to the emergence of broadcast television in the 1930s, showing how television was always discussed and treated in relation to cinema.
ENGLISH

Hush - Media And Sonic Self-Control

by Mack Hagood

37,84€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 Mack Hagood outlines how noise-cancelling headphones, tinnitus maskers, white noise machines, nature-sound mobile apps, and other forms of media give users the ability to create sonic safe spaces for themselves, showing how the desire to block certain sounds are informed by ideologies of race, gender, and class.
ENGLISH

Horn, Or The Counterside Of Media

by Henning Schmidgen

33,79€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 Henning Schmidgen reflects on the dynamic phenomena of touch in media, analyzing works by artists, scientists, and philosophers ranging from Salvador DalÃ to Walter Benjamin, who each explore the interplay between tactility and technological and biological surfaces.
ENGLISH

The Stone And The Wireless - Mediating China, 1861â€“1906

by Shaoling Ma

39,14€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 Shaoling Ma examines late Qing China's political upheavals and modernizing energies through the problem of the dynamics between new media technologies such as the telegraph the discursive representations of them.
ENGLISH

Horn, Or The Counterside Of Media

by Henning Schmidgen

38,36€ + 10% CARD

 Henning Schmidgen reflects on the dynamic phenomena of touch in media, analyzing works by artists, scientists, and philosophers ranging from Salvador DalÃ to Walter Benjamin, who each explore the interplay between tactility and technological and biological surfaces.
ENGLISH

Stone And The Wireless - Mediating China, 1861-1906

by Shaoling Ma

38,36€ + 10% CARD

 Shaoling Ma examines late Qing China's political upheavals and modernizing energies through the problem of the dynamics between new media technologies such as the telegraph the discursive representations of them.
ENGLISH

Slow Disturbance - Infrastructural Mediation On The Settler Colonial Resource Frontier

by Rafico Ruiz

35,71€ + 10% CARD

 Rafico Ruiz uses the Grenfell Mission in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, to theorize how settler colonialism establishes itself through the building, maintenance, and mediation of site-specific infrastructure.
ENGLISH

American Blockbuster - Movies, Technology, And Wonder

by Charles R. Acland

41,01€ + 10% CARD

 Charles R. Acland charts the origins, impact, and dynamics of the blockbuster, showing how it became a complex economic and cultural machine designed to advance popular support for technological advances.
ENGLISH

Information Activism - A Queer History Of Lesbian Media Technologies

by Cait Mckinney

38,36€ + 10% CARD

 Cait McKinney traces how lesbian feminist activists in the United States and Canada between the 1970s and the present developed communication networks, databases, and digital archives to use as a foundation for their feminist, antiracist, and trans-inclusive work.
ENGLISH

Radiant Infrastructures - Media, Environment, And Cultures Of Uncertainty

by Rahul Mukherjee

46,31€ + 10% CARD

 Rahul Mukherjee explores how the media coverage of and debates about nuclear power plants and cellular phone antennas in India frames and sustains environmental activism.
ENGLISH

Seeing By Electricity - The Emergence Of Television, 1878-1939

by Doron Galili

46,31€ + 10% CARD

 Doron Galili traces television's early history, from the fantastical devices initially imagined fifty years before the first television prototypes to the emergence of broadcast television in the 1930s, showing how television was always discussed and treated in relation to cinema.
ENGLISH

Hush - Media And Sonic Self-Control

by Mack Hagood

46,31€ + 10% CARD

 Mack Hagood outlines how noise-cancelling headphones, tinnitus maskers, white noise machines, nature-sound mobile apps, and other forms of media give users the ability to create sonic safe spaces for themselves, showing how the desire to block certain sounds are informed by ideologies of race, gender, and class.
ENGLISH

Japanoise - Music At The Edge Of Circulation

by David Novak

38,36€ + 10% CARD

 Noise, an underground music made through an amalgam of feedback, distortion, and electronic effects, first emerged as a genre in the 1980s, circulating on cassette tapes traded between fans in Japan, Europe, and North America. With its cultivated obscurity, ear-shattering sound, and over-the-top performances, Noise has captured the imagination of a small but passionate transnational audience.For its scattered listeners, Noise always seems to be new and to come from somewhere else: in North America, it was called "Japanoise." But does Noise really belong to Japan? Is it even music at all? And why has Noise become such a compelling metaphor for the complexities of globalization and participatory media at the turn of the millennium?In Japanoise, David Novak draws on more than a decade of research in Japan and the United States to trace the "cultural feedback" that generates and sustains Noise. He provides a rich ethnographic account of live performances, the circulation of recordings, and the lives and creative practices of musicians and listeners. He explores the technologies of Noise and the productive distortions of its networks. Capturing the textures of feedback-its sonic and cultural layers and vibrations-Novak describes musical circulation through sound and listening, recording and performance, international exchange, and the social interpretations of media.
ENGLISH

Mp3 - The Meaning Of A Format

by Jonathan Sterne

52,93€ + 10% CARD

 Jonathan Sterne shows that understanding the historical meaning of the MP3, the world's most common format for recorded audio, involves rethinking the place of digital technologies in the broader universe of twentieth-century communication history.
Loading results...

View more results