Future Sounds - The Temporality of Noise

What can the sounds of today tell us about the future? Can an analysis of sound and sonic practices allow us to make reliable predictions in relation to wider social phenomena? And what might they tell us about technology in a world where futurology is such a frenzied and busy field? In order to answer these questions, this book tests a range of propositions that connect noise, sound and music to political, economic and technological events. Hence it is a book about historical trajectories and conflicting ideas about time and the necessity to re-contextualize and interpret them in the digital age.>

About the author

Stephen Kennedy is Professor of Critical Theory & Practice at the University of Greenwich, UK. He is the author of Chaos Media: A Sonic Economy of Digital Space (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Future Sounds: The Temporality of Noise (Bloomsbury, 2018). His work involves reformulating the idea of noise as a means of supporting philosophical frameworks capable of accounting for the complex nature of contemporary digital environments.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Kennedy, Stephen (University of Greenwich Kennedy, KENNEDY STEPHEN
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9781501321054
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-2105-4
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, Philosophy: aesthetics, Theory of music & musicology, Theory of music and musicology