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The Sound of Books: West Berlin’s Staatsbibliothek between Postwar City Visions, Organizational Cybernetics, and Heterotopia
In 1978, West Berlin opened its impressive new State Library, the Staatsbibliothek at Potsdamer Strasse, designed by Hans Scharoun around an open, 600
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
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
Artist in Residence: World Factory
After food and shelter, clothing is probably the essential feature of human civilization, creating and representing economic, state, and soc
Cooperation Partners, BICC at the University of Manchester
Decolonization in Action Episode 1, Part 1: Decolonizing Berlin
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MoreFrom 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,
Decolonization in Action Episode 3: Leftism in Action: A History of Leftist People of Color
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MoreVisions and Experiments of Radiophonic Composing in the Weimar Republic
When radio made it possible to transmit sounds across chronological and spatial distance, new listening situations and new approaches to the interacti