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  • Interspecies Communication

    Sound & Music Beyond Humanity

    par Gavin Steingo ...
    A surprising study reveals a plethora of attempts to communicate with non-humans in the modern era.In Interspecies Communication, music scholar Gavin Steingo examines significant cases of attempted communication beyond the human—cases in which the dualistic relationship of human to non-human is dramatically challenged. From singing whales to Sun Ra to searching for alien life, Steingo charts the ... En savoir plus

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  • Kwaito's Promise

    Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa

    par Gavin Steingo ...
    In mid-1990s South Africa, apartheid ended, Nelson Mandela was elected president, and the country's urban black youth developed kwaito—a form of electronic music (redolent of North American house) that came to represent the post-struggle generation. In this book, Gavin Steingo examines kwaito as it has developed alongside the democratization of South Africa over the past two decades. Tracking the ... En savoir plus

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  • Remapping Sound Studies

    Modifié par Gavin Steingo, Jim Sykes ...
    The contributors to Remapping Sound Studies intervene in current trends and practices in sound studies by reorienting the field toward the global South. Attending to disparate aspects of sound in Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Micronesia, and a Southern outpost in the global North, this volume broadens the scope of sound studies and challenges some of the field's ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

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    Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World

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    Having set global warming in irreversible motion, we are facing the possibility of ecological catastrophe. But the environmental emergency is also a crisis for our philosophical habits of thought, confronting us with a problem that seems to defy not only our control but also our understanding. Global warming is perhaps the most dramatic example of what Timothy Morton calls “hyperobjects”—entities ... En savoir plus

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  • Facing Gaia

    Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime

    par Bruno Latour ...
    Traduit par Catherine Porter ...
    The emergence of modern sciences in the seventeenth century profoundly renewed our understanding of nature. For the last three centuries new ideas of nature have been continually developed by theology, politics, economics, and science, especially the sciences of the material world.The situation is even more unstable today, now that we have entered an ecological mutation of unprecedented scale. ... En savoir plus

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  • When Languages Die

    The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge

    It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. The phenomenon known as language death has started to accelerate as the world has grown smaller. This extinction of languages, and the knowledge therein, has no parallel in human history. K. David Harrison's book is the first to focus on the ... En savoir plus

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  • The Ends of the World

    The end of the world is a seemingly interminable topic Ð at least, of course, until it happens. Environmental catastrophe and planetary apocalypse are subjects of enduring fascination and, as ethnographic studies show, human cultures have approached them in very different ways. Indeed, in the face of the growing perception of the dire effects of global warming, some of these visions have been ... En savoir plus

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  • The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction

    This major critical work from one of the preeminent voices in science fiction scholarship reframes the genre as a way of understanding today's world.As the application of technoscience increasingly transforms every aspect of life, science fiction has become an essential mode of imagining the horizons of possibility. Though the broad scope of science fiction may vary in artistic quality and ... En savoir plus

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  • The Marvelous Clouds

    Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media

    "An ambitious re-writing—a re-synthesis, even—of concepts of media and culture . . . It is nothing less than an attempt at a history of Being." — Los Angeles Review of BooksWhen we speak of clouds these days, it is as likely that we mean data clouds or network clouds as cumulus or stratus. In their sharing of the term, both kinds of clouds reveal an essential truth: that the natural world and the ... En savoir plus

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  • Dying Words

    Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us

    par Nicholas Evans ...
    Collections Livre 22 - The Language Library
    The next century will see more than half of the world’s 6,000 languages become extinct, and most of these will disappear without being adequately recorded. Written by one of the leading figures in language documentation, this fascinating book explores what humanity stands to lose as a result.Explores the unique philosophy, knowledge, and cultural assumptions of languages, and their impact on our ... En savoir plus

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  • Fluid Futures

    Science Fiction and Potentiality

    par Steven Shaviro ...
    How does science fiction envision new forms of life — plausible yet radically different from what we know?Fluid Futures explores how science fiction offers bold, thought-provoking scenarios that challenge our assumptions about time, technology, and the limits of human experience. Rather than predicting the future, sci-fi reveals how emerging developments could unfold in unexpected and ... En savoir plus

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  • Sonic Intimacy

    Voice, Species, Technics (or, How To Listen to the World)

    par Dominic Pettman ...
    "A perceptive, engaging, and clever set of meditations on . . . how sound produces human, technical, and nonhuman intimacies." —Richard Grusin,University of Wisconsin, MilwaukeeSonic Intimacy asks us who—or what—deserves to have a voice, beyond the human. Arguing that our ears are far too narrowly attuned to our own species, the book explores four different types of voices: the cybernetic, the ... En savoir plus

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