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  • In Pursuit of the Object of Sound: An Introduction–Rey Chow and James A. Steintrager

    Descartes’s Resonant Subject–Veit Erlmann

    The Poetics of Signal Processing–Jonathan Sterne and Tara Rodgers

    “This Is Not a Copy”: Mechanical Fidelity and the Re-enacting Piano–Nick Seaver

    On Disability and Cybernetics: Helen Keller, Norbert Wiener, and the Hearing Glove–Mara Mills

    The Burrow of Sound–Mladen Dolar

    Pavlov’s Podcast: The Acousmatic Voice in the Age of MP3s–Dominic Pettman

    Like a Whisper–John Mowitt

    Rhythm and the Cold War Imaginary: Listening to John Adams’s Nixon in China–Christopher Lee

    Critique of Silence–Eugenie Brinkema

    Dissolution of the Notion of Timbre–Michel Chion

    Let’s Have Done with the Notion of “Noise”–Michel Chion

    Speaking of Noise: From Murderous Loudness to the Crackle of Silk–James A. Steintrager

    Twittering Machines: Antinoise and Other Tricks of the Ear–Caroline Bassett

    Sounds from the South–Iain Chambers

    Index Volume 22

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  • Description

    Sound has given rise to many rich theoretical reflections, but when compared to the study of images, the study of sound continues to be marginalized. How is the “sense” of sound constituted and elaborated linguistically, textually, technologically, phenomenologically, and geologically, as well as acoustically? How is sound grasped as an object? Considering sound both within and beyond the scope of the human senses, contributors from literature, film, music, philosophy, anthropology, media and communication, and science and technology studies address topics that range from Descartes’s resonant subject to the gendering of hearing physiology in the nineteenth century, Cold War politics and the opera Nixon in China, sounds from the Mediterranean, the poetics of signal processing, and the acousmatic voice in the age of MP3s. In the interpretive challenges posed by voice, noise, antinoise, whispering, near inaudibility, and silence and in the frequent noncoincidence of emission and reception, sound confronts us with what might be called its inhuman qualities—its irreducibility to meaning, to communication, to information, and even to recognition and identification.

    Rey Chow is Anne Firor Scott Professor of Literature at Duke University. She is the author of The Age of the World Target and Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory, both published by Duke University Press.

    James A. Steintrager is Professor and Chair of English at the University of California, Irvine.

    Contributors: Caroline Bassett, Eugenie Brinkema, Iain Chambers, Michel Chion, Rey Chow, Mladen Dolar, Veit Erlmann, Evan Johnson, Christopher Lee, Mara Mills, John Mowitt, Dominic Pettman, Tara Rodgers, Nicholas Seaver, James A. Steintrager, Jonathan Sterne,

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