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Inventing the Decibel: An Episode in the History of Sonic Thinking
In late 1920s New York, telephone engineers publicly measured city noise using equipment from mass hearing tests, and named the results as percentages
Methods Intensive Workshop | Mai 9, 2019 | 10:30 bis 11:30
Three-Dimensional Scanning at the Transept of the Cathedral in Paris: The Benefit for Art History
MehrMethods Intensive Workshop | Mai 9, 2019 | 18:00 bis 19:00
Reconstructing Notre Dame: Expertise, Art, Money, Politics.
MehrAcoustic Surveillance in Brazil
In Seeing Like a State (1998), James Scott argues that legibility is of paramount importance for modern statecraft. The creation of an administrative
Artisan Knowledge and Musical Instrument Making in South India
How do craftspeople know what they know? How is acoustic knowledge embodied in skills and labor? How do instrument makers relate to musicians as instr
Secondary Sounds: A History of Perception through Routine Experimental Practices in the Psychological Laboratory
Sometimes, the dull sound of tapping on a shoe box could be heard in the lab. At other times, much more complex installations of interconnected instru
Artificial “Listening”: From Fechner to Sensor Fusion
At the MPIWG, I will develop one chapter of a larger forthcoming book for MIT Press that focuses on how we make sense in our current age of artificial
"It Was the Nightingale, Not the Jumbo": Acoustic Borderlands at Frankfurt Airport
Noise is a notorious issue in conflicts over airport operation and extensions, affecting spatial planning, land use, and public health in airport regi
A Cultural History of the End of Fossil Fuels
Taking as my starting point the presumption that we are in the early days of a massive phase-out of fossil fuels, this project brings culture and tech
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Empires of Useful Knowledge: Colonial Patent Systems in the Atlantic World (1750–1930)
A global history of knowledge in the age of empire requires attention be paid not just to the role of technology as a driver of colonial expansion but
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This project makes three main contributions. First, it advances a new analytical framework that helps unpack the historical diversity of knowledge pro