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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809437103321

Autore

Ihde Don <1934->

Titolo

Acoustic technics / / Don Ihde

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4985-1924-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (150 p.)

Collana

Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology

Disciplina

620.2

Soggetti

Acoustical engineering

Ultrasonics

Sound - Recording and reproducing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Preface: Prereflections on science, technologies, visualization, and sonification; 1: A Sono-Sightscape-Locating Acoustic Technologies; Chapter One: Sound beyond Sound and Light beyond Light; Chapter Two: Imaging, A Second Scientific Revolution; Chapter Three: Animals and Robots; Chapter Four: Is There a Bat Problem for Postphenomenology?; 2: Dimensional or "Case" Studies of Acoustic Capacities; Chapter Five: Technologies-Musics-Embodiment; Chapter Six: Synthesizing Sounds; Chapter Seven: Embodying Hearing Devices; Chapter Eight: Listening to Cancer

Chapter Nine: Acoustics below the SurfaceChapter Ten: Multimedia-Multitasking-Multistability; Are We Posthuman?; Technoscience and the Twenty-First Century; Bibliographic Essay; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Acoustic Technics, aware that digital and computer embedded technologies produce data that today can be transformed into acoustic images, notes the transformations these phenomena imply for a diverse set of practices, such as music, communication, medical diagnosis, and scientific knowledge.