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  • Thinking with Sound

    A New Program in the Sciences and Humanities around 1900

    by Viktoria Tkaczyk ...
    Thinking with Sound traces the formation of auditory knowledge in the sciences and humanities in the decades around 1900.When the outside world is silent, all sorts of sounds often come to mind: inner voices, snippets of past conversations, imaginary debates, beloved and unloved melodies. What should we make of such sonic companions? Thinking with Sound investigates a period when these and other ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unsound Supplies

    Noisy Matter and the Making of Modern Soundscapes

    Edited by Fanny Gribenski, David Pantalony, Viktoria Tkaczyk ...
    Series series Critical Conjunctures in Music and Sound
    Unsound Supplies explores the complex and often hidden provenance of the raw materials that underpin the rich musical cultures of modernity. Each of the book's ten chapters focuses on one material used in musical instrument making and the audio communications industry in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries--from African ivory and transatlantically traded rubber to Manila paper, ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Testing Hearing

    The Making of Modern Aurality

    Edited by Viktoria Tkaczyk, Mara Mills, Alexandra Hui ...
    Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality argues that the modern cultural practices of hearing and testing have emerged from a long interrelationship. Since the early nineteenth century, auditory test tools (whether organ pipes or electronic tone generators) and the results of hearing tests have fed back into instrument calibration, human training, architecture, and the creation of new ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

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  • Insectopedia

    by Hugh Raffles ...
    A New York Times Notable BookA stunningly original exploration of the ties that bind us to the beautiful, ancient, astoundingly accomplished, largely unknown, and unfathomably different species with whom we share the world.For as long as humans have existed, insects have been our constant companions. Yet we hardly know them, not even the ones we’re closest to: those that eat our food, share our ... Read more

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  • Anthropocene or Capitalocene?

    Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism

    Edited by Jason W. Moore ...
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    The Earth has reached a tipping point. Runaway climate change, the sixth great extinction of planetary life, the acidification of the oceans—all point toward an era of unprecedented turbulence in humanity’s relationship within the web of life. But just what is that relationship, and how do we make sense of this extraordinary transition?Anthropocene or Capitalocene? offers answers to these ... Read more

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  • Elderflora

    A Modern History of Ancient Trees

    by Jared Farmer ...
    **The epic story of the planet’s oldest trees and the making of the modern world“Rich...fascinating.”—The Wall Street Journal**Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora, our veneration took a modern turn in the eighteenth century, when naturalists embarked on a quest to locate and precisely date the oldest living things on earth. The new ... Read more

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  • Radical Cartography

    How Changing Our Maps Can Change Our World

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  • Art & Energy

    How Culture Changes

    by Barry Lord ...
    In Art & Energy, Barry Lord argues that human creativity is deeply linked to the resources available on Earth for our survival. From our ancient mastery of fire through our exploitation of coal, oil, and gas, to the development of today's renewable energy sources, each new source of energy fundamentally transforms our art and culture—how we interact with the world, organize our communities, ... Read more

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  • Race and Modern Architecture

    A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present

    Edited by Irene Cheng, Charles L. Davis II, Mabel O. Wilson ...
    Although race—a concept of human difference that establishes hierarchies of power and domination—has played a critical role in the development of modern architectural discourse and practice since the Enlightenment, its influence on the discipline remains largely underexplored. This volume offers a welcome and long-awaited intervention for the field by shining a spotlight on constructions of race ... Read more

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  • Weathered

    Cultures of Climate

    by Mike Hulme ...
    Climate is an enduring idea of the human mind and also a powerful one. Today, the idea of climate is most commonly associated with the discourse of climate-change and its scientific, political, economic, social, religious and ethical dimensions. However, to understand adequately the cultural politics of climate-change it is important to establish the different origins of the idea of climate itself ... Read more

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  • Is Landscape... ?

    Essays on the Identity of Landscape

    Edited by Gareth Doherty, Charles Waldheim ...
    Is Landscape . . . ? surveys multiple and myriad definitions of landscape. Rather than seeking a singular or essential understanding of the term, the collection postulates that landscape might be better read in relation to its cognate terms across expanded disciplinary and professional fields. The publication pursues the potential of multiple provisional working definitions of landscape to both ... Read more

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