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 theorizing 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.
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This book presents an innovative new way of thinking about transmission media: through the figure of the messenger as a key metaphor. It explores a strikingly diverse range of types of transmission, including the circulation of money, the translation of languages, angelic visitations, the spread of infectious disease, the transferences that occur in psychoanalysis, the act of bearing witness, and the development of cartography. In each case, Sybille Kramer uses the insight offered by the metaphor of the messenger to help explain and explore the field of media philosophy and the ways that...

Sociology has long had approaches to describing the ways in which social memory is enacted through ritual, language, art, architecture, and institutions phenomena whose persistence over time and capacity for a shared storage of the past was set in contrast to fleeting individual memory. But the question of how new media changes that equation is very much up in the air how, in the age of digital computing, instant updating, and interconnection in real time, is social memory created and enacted? This collection offers a set of essays that discuss the new technology of memory from a variety of...

This book examines radical media ecologies as guerrilla networks, emphasising the proximity and inseparability of radical media and political practices.