Sonic Warfare. Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear Steve Goodman
ISBN: 9780262013475 Format: Hardback Publisher: MIT Press Ltd "Sonic Warfare sends a shudder through the hidden underbelly of sound. With uncanny brilliance, Steve Goodman writes through the depths of sub-bass to bring together noise weapons, pirate radio, and the philosophy and politics of rhythm in a vivid new evocation of the power of sound." --Matthew Fuller, David Gee Reader in Digital Media, Goldsmiths, University of London, author of Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture "In the beginning, there was rhythm. In Sonic Warfare, Steve Goodman surveys the soundscape in the midst of which we live today, tracking its various guises, from Jamaican dub soundsystems to US military infrasound crowd-control devices, from Muzak as mind-numbing sonic architecture to grime and dubstep as enhancers of postapocalyptic dread, and from the cosmic vibrations left behind by the Big Bang to the latest viral sound contagions." --Steven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State University... http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/id/Sonic_Warfare/9780262013475 _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
