Acoustic Technics

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.

List of contents

Preface: Prereflections on Science, Technologies and Sonification
Part One: A Sono and Sightscape: Locating Acoustic Technologies
Chapter One: Introduction: Sound beyond Sound and Light beyond Light
Chapter Two: Imaging: A Second Scientific Revolution
Chapter Three: Animals and Robots
Chapter Four: Does Postphenomenology have a Bat Problem?
Part Two: Dimensional or "Case" Studies for Auditory Capacities
Chapter Five Music: Technologies-Musics-Embodiment
Chapter Six: Synthesizing Sounds
Chapter Seven: Prostheses: Embodying Hearing Devices
Chapter Eight: Listening to Cancer
Chapter Nine: Acoustics below the Surface
Chapter Ten: Multimedia-Multitasking-Multistability
Epilogue: Are we Posthuman?

About the author

By Don Ihde

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Don Ihde
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9781498519250
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-1925-0
• No. of pages: 148
• Series: Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology; Postphenomenology and the Phil; Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works