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  • Thinking with Sound

    A New Program in the Sciences and Humanities around 1900

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Unsound Supplies

    Noisy Matter and the Making of Modern Soundscapes

    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, ... Leer más

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  • Testing Hearing

    The Making of Modern Aurality

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Insectopedia

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  • Anthropocene or Capitalocene?

    Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism

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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 ... Leer más

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  • Elderflora

    A Modern History of Ancient Trees

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Radical Cartography

    How Changing Our Maps Can Change Our World

    **“This is it: the full download from a true genius of cartography. Radical Cartography will make you see maps, and, indeed, your place on the planet, with fresh eyes.”—Daniel Immerwahr, author of How to Hide an Empire.A stunning, thought-provoking exploration of how maps shape our understanding of the world—featuring over 150 full-color maps in a gorgeous package**Maps are ubiquitous in ... Leer más

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  • Art & Energy

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  • Race and Modern Architecture

    A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Weathered

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    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Is Landscape... ?

    Essays on the Identity of Landscape

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