Sonic Warfare
Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear
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- Paperback
296 pages
- Release Date
17 August 2012
Summary
An exploration of the production, transmission, and mutation of affective tonality-when sound helps produce a bad vibe.
Sound can be deployed to produce discomfort, express a threat, or create an ambience of fear or dread-to produce a bad vibe. Sonic weapons of this sort include the “psychoacoustic correction” aimed at Panama strongman Manuel Noriega by the U.S. Army and at the Branch Davidians in Waco by the FBI, sonic booms (or “sound bombs”) over the Gaza Strip, and high-frequency …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262517959 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262517957 |
| Author: | Steve Goodman |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 296 |
| Release Date: | 17 August 2012 |
| Weight: | 476g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Sonic Warfare |
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Critics Review
“By insisting on the primacy of vibration in the nexus of sound, affect, and power, Sonic Warfare charts a transdisciplinary micropolitics of frequency that breaks with the orthodoxies of phenomenology and cultural studies and triumphantly succeeds in immersing us in the present of viral capitalism, pirate media, and asymmetric warfare. This book is rigorous, affirmative, sober, and pitiless: in its ambition, its purpose and its passion, it is nothing short of a breakthrough for contemporary sonic thought.”–Kodwo Eshun, Course Director of MA Aural and Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London, and author of More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction
About The Author
Steve Goodman
Steve Goodman is a Lecturer in Music Culture at the School of Sciences, Media, and Cultural Studies at the University of East London. He is also a member of the CCRU (Cybernetic Culture Research Unit) and the founder of the record label Hyperdub.
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