Kennedy, StephenUnknown
Bloomsbury Academic (London, 2018) (eng) English9781501321054UnknownUnknownSOUND (PHILOSOPHY); UnknownWhat can the sounds of today tell us about the future? Can an analysis of sound and sonic practices allow us to make reliable predictions in relation to wider social phenomena? And what might they tell us about technology in a world where futurology is such a frenzied and busy field? In order to answer these questions, this book tests a range of propositions that connect noise, sound and music to political, economic and technological events. Hence it is a book about historical trajectories and conflicting ideas about time and the necessity to re-contextualize and interpret them in the digital age.
Physical dimension
viii, 167p.24 cm.ill.
Summary / review / table of contents
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction;
Chapter One: Critical Temporalities;
Chapter Two: Noise and Political Economy;
Chapter Three: Remembering the Future: 1977-2017;
Chapter Four: Continuous Discontinuity: A Non-Linear History of Noise;
Notes; 1 Critical Temporalities;
Notes; 2 Noise and Political Economy; Sacrificing; Representing; Repeating; Composing;
Notes; 3 Remembering the Future: 1977-2017;
Notes; 4 Continuous Discontinuity: A Non-Linear History of Noise;
Notes;
Bibliography;
Index.