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Acoustic 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
Forschungsgruppe „Epistemes of Modern Acoustics“ veröffentlicht special issue in „Technology and Culture“
Forschungsgruppe „Epistemes of Modern Acoustics“ veröffentlicht special issue in Technology and Culture
Jul 12, 2019 Zum Special IssueResearch Group "Epistemes of Modern Acoustics" Publishes Special Issue of "Technology and Culture"
Research Group "Epistemes of Modern Acoustics" publishes special issue of Technology and Culture
Jul 12, 2019 Go to PublicationSecondary 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
Noisy Politics: Acoustics, Sound, and Music in an Age of Populism
The wave of populism sweeping liberal democracies is often associated with the emergence of social media. And, indeed, the “twitterization” of politic
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
Exploring the Material Culture of Acoustics in German Collections
There is an extensive literature on the history of acoustics in Germany, complemented by diverse collections of surviving historic acoustical instrume
"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
From Text to Speech: Re-Embodying Voice and Disembodying Difference
Historians of science have narrated the development of sonic technology as a process of cleaving sounds from the humans that produce them. Of course,