Dear MeCCSA-colleagues,
I am happy to announce that the 2nd book in the Recursions-book series focusing on media theory is now out: Wolfgang Ernst's Sonic Time Machines theorizes sound and audio media from the perspective of media theory.
"Our studies of aesthetics and knowledge have long tended to privilege the visual - at the expense, Wolfgang Ernst argues, of the aural. Sonic Time Machines aims to correct that, presenting a striking new approach to theorising sound that investigates its split existence: as a temporal effect in a techno-cultural context and as a source of knowledge and information. Ernst creates a new term for the concept at the heart of the book, "sonicity," a flexible and powerful term that allows him to consider sound with all its many physical, philosophical, and cultural valences."
More information:
http://en.aup.nl/books/9789089649492-sonic-time-machines.html
PDF preview:
http://en.aup.nl/download/9789048528479.pdf
More information about the Recursions-book series:
http://en.aup.nl/series/recursions
Best wishes
Jussi
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Dr Jussi Parikka
Professor in Technological Culture & Aesthetics
Winchester School of Art/University of Southampton
Docent in Digital Culture Theory (University of Turku, Finland)
Machinology-blog: http://jussiparikka.net
Mailing address:
Professor Jussi Parikka
Winchester School of Art
Park Avenue
Winchester
Hampshire
SO 23 8DL
United Kingdom
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