Don Ihde

Acoustic Technics (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Acoustic Technics opens with the 19th century discovery of radiation which exceeds our human bodily perceptual experience, light beyond light, sound beyond sound and on into what today we call the electromagnetic spectrum. Claiming a second scientific revolution through imaging technologies and drawing from both instrumental sensory mediation and animal studies, Acoustic Technics follows listening in its new forms into music, echo-location, infra and ultra-sounds, medical diagnosis, surveillance, and subsurface and interplanetary domains. Synthesized sounds, sonification, in both esoteric and popular technologies such as earbuds, cellphones, television are analyzed from a postphenomenological perspective.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498519243
• Artikelnr.: 44765152

Autorenporträt

Don Ihde is distinguished professor of philosophy, emeritus, at Stony Brook University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Prereflections on Science, Technologies and Sonification
Part One: A Sono and Sightscape: Locating Acoustic Technologies
Chapter One: Introduction: Sound beyond Sound and Light beyond Light
Chapter Two: Imaging: A Second Scientific Revolution
Chapter Three: Animals and Robots
Chapter Four: Does Postphenomenology have a Bat Problem?
Part Two: Dimensional or "Case" Studies for Auditory Capacities
Chapter Five Music: Technologies-Musics-Embodiment
Chapter Six: Synthesizing Sounds
Chapter Seven: Prostheses: Embodying Hearing Devices
Chapter Eight: Listening to Cancer
Chapter Nine: Acoustics below the Surface
Chapter Ten: Multimedia-Multitasking-Multistability
Epilogue: Are we Posthuman?