Acoustic Technics

Informationen zum Autor Don Ihde is distinguished professor of philosophy, emeritus, at Stony Brook University. Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: Prereflections on Science, Technologies and SonificationPart One: A Sono and Sightscape: Locating Acoustic TechnologiesChapter One: Introduction: Sound beyond Sound and Light beyond LightChapter Two: Imaging: A Second Scientific RevolutionChapter Three: Animals and RobotsChapter Four: Does Postphenomenology have a Bat Problem?Part Two: Dimensional or "Case" Studies for Auditory CapacitiesChapter Five Music: Technologies-Musics-EmbodimentChapter Six: Synthesizing Sounds Chapter Seven: Prostheses: Embodying Hearing DevicesChapter Eight: Listening to CancerChapter Nine: Acoustics below the SurfaceChapter Ten: Multimedia-Multitasking-MultistabilityEpilogue: Are we Posthuman?

Product details

• Authors: Don Ihde
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2016
• EAN: 9781498519236
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-1923-6
• Series: Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology; Postphenomenology and the Phil; Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works