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  • Sound Research for Troubling Times

    Hope In Crisis

    Edited by jessie l. beier, Owen Chapman ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This edited collection takes the prompt “hope in crisis” as a starting point for investigating sound research as it is situated in these troubling times. The book brings together thinkers from numerous scholarly domains (i.e. communication studies, art education, creative art therapy, psychology and philosophy) to explore the question of hope as it relates to sonic research-creation practices in ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

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    How to Change the World

    How social entrepreneurs can go from initial ideas to global impact

    by Jo Owen ...
    Narrated by Elliot Chapman ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 57 min

    Bloomsbury presents How to Change the World: The essential handbook for social entrepreneurs, donors and policy makers by Jo Owen, read by Elliot Chapman'Take your dream, read this, and let it fly.' JO YOULE OBE, CEO of Missing PeopleThe world can be a challenging place. It is often tempting to say ‘why doesn’t someone do something about it?’ But why shouldn’t that ‘someone’ be you?You don’t have ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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    Why, surrounded by screens and smart devices, we feel a deep connection to the analog—vinyl records, fountain pens, Kodak film, and other nondigital tools.We’re surrounded by screens; our music comes in the form of digital files; we tap words into a notes app. Why do we still crave the “realness” of analog, seeking out vinyl records, fountain pens, cameras with film? In this volume in the MIT ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Together, Somehow

    Music, Affect, and Intimacy on the Dancefloor

    by Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta ...
    In Together, Somehow, Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta examines how people find ways to get along and share a dancefloor, a vibe, and a sound. Drawing on time spent in the minimal techno and house music subscenes in Chicago, Paris, and Berlin as the first decade of the new millennium came to a close, Garcia-Mispireta explains this bonding in terms of what he calls stranger-intimacy: the kind of warmth ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Sonic Warfare

    Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear

    by Steve Goodman ...
    Series series Technologies of Lived Abstraction
    An exploration of the production, transmission, and mutation of affective tonality—when sound helps produce a bad vibe.Sound can be deployed to produce discomfort, express a threat, or create an ambience of fear or dread—to produce a bad vibe. Sonic weapons of this sort include the “psychoacoustic correction” aimed at Panama strongman Manuel Noriega by the U.S. Army and at the Branch Davidians in ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Thought in the Act

    Passages in the Ecology of Experience

    by Erin Manning, Brian Massumi ...
    “Every practice is a mode of thought, already in the act. To dance: a thinking in movement. To paint: a thinking through color. To perceive in the everyday: a thinking of the world’s varied ways of affording itself.” —from Thought in the ActCombining philosophy and aesthetics, Thought in the Act is a unique exploration of creative practice as a form of thinking. Challenging the common opposition ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Ambient Commons

    Attention in the Age of Embodied Information

    by Malcolm McCullough ...
    On rediscovering surroundings when information goes everywhere.The world is filling with ever more kinds of media, in ever more contexts and formats. Glowing rectangles have become part of the scene; screens, large and small, appear everywhere. Physical locations are increasingly tagged and digitally augmented. Amid this flood, your attention practices matter more than ever. You might not be able ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Experimenting with Ethnography

    A Companion to Analysis

    Edited by Andrea Ballestero, Brit Ross Winthereik ...
    Series series Experimental Futures
    Experimenting with Ethnography collects twenty-one essays that open new paths for doing ethnographic analysis. The contributors—who come from a variety of intellectual and methodological traditions—enliven analysis by refusing to take it as an abstract, disembodied exercise. Rather, they frame it as a concrete mode of action and a creative practice. Encompassing topics ranging from language and ... Read more

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  • Posthumanism in Art and Science

    A Reader

    Edited by Giovanni Aloi, Susan McHugh ...
    Posthumanism synthesizes philosophical, literary, and artistic responses to technological advancements, globalization, and mass extinction in the Anthropocene. It asks what it can mean to be human in an increasingly more-than-human world that has lost faith in the ideal of humanism, the autonomous, rational subject, and it models generative alternatives cognizant of the demands of social and ... Read more

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  • The Affective Turn

    Theorizing the Social

    by Hosu Kim, Jamie Bianco ...
    “The innovative essays in this volume . . . demonstrat[e] the potential of the perspective of the affects in a wide range of fields and with a variety of methodological approaches. Some of the essays . . . use fieldwork to investigate the functions of affects—among organized sex workers, health care workers, and in the modeling industry. Others employ the discourses of microbiology, thermodynamics ... Read more

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  • Beyond Unwanted Sound

    Noise, Affect and Aesthetic Moralism

    by Marie Thompson ...
    Noise is so often a 'stench in the ear' – an unpleasant disturbance or an unwelcome distraction. But there is much more to noise than what greets the ear as unwanted sound.Beyond Unwanted Sound is about noise and how we talk about it. Weaving together affect theory with cybernetics, media histories, acoustic ecology, geo-politics, sonic art practices and a range of noises, Marie Thompson critiques ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Sensing Sound

    Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice

    by Nina Sun Eidsheim ...
    Series series Sign, Storage, Transmission
    In Sensing Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim offers a vibrational theory of music that radically re-envisions how we think about sound, music, and listening. Eidsheim shows how sound, music, and listening are dynamic and contextually dependent, rather than being fixed, knowable, and constant. She uses twenty-first-century operas by Juliana Snapper, Meredith Monk, Christopher Cerrone, and Alba Triana as case ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD