Cecchetto Listening in the Afterlife of Data

Aesthetics, Pragmatics, and Incommunication
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2253-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 179 Seiten

Reihe: Thought in the Act

Writing at a cultural moment in which data has never been more ubiquitous or less convincing, David Cecchetto theorizes sound, communication, and data by analyzing them in the contexts of computation, wearable technologies, and digital artwork.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cecchetto, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Incommunication 1
1. Networking Sound and Medium Specificity 21
2. Listening and Technicity 44
3. Incomputable and Integral Incommunications 62
4. Algorithms, Art, and Sonicity 84
5. Listening and Technicity (Once and for All, Again and Again) 105
Postscript. Epidemiological Afterlives 124
Appendix. Aural Incommunications Seminar Prompt 131
Notes 135
Bibliography 155
Index 163

Über Autor(innen)

David Cecchetto is Associate Professor of Critical Digital Theory in the Department of Humanities at York University, author of Humanesis: Sound and Technological Posthumanism, and coauthor of Ludic Dreaming: How to Listen Away from Contemporary Technoculture.