Karin Bijsterveld, José van Dijck (eds.): Sound Souvenirs: Audio Technologies, Memory and Cultural Practices (2009)

“In recent decades, the importance of sound for remembering the past and for creating a sense of belonging has been increasingly acknowledged. We keep “sound souvenirs” such as cassette tapes and long play albums in our attics because we want to be able to recreate the music and everyday sounds we once cherished. Artists and ordinary listeners deploy the newest digital audio technologies to recycle past sounds into present tunes. Sound and memory are inextricably intertwined, not just through the commercially exploited nostalgia on oldies radio stations, but through the exchange of valued songs by means of pristine recordings and cultural practices such as collecting, archiving and listing. This book explores several types of cultural practices involving the remembrance and restoration of past sounds. At the same time, it theorizes the cultural meaning of collecting, recycling, reciting, and remembering sound and music.”

Publisher Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2009
Transformations in Art and Culture series
Creative Commons BY-NC 3.0 License
ISBN 9089641327, 9789089641328
218 pages

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Steve Wozniak: The Woz Wonderbook (1977)

The “Woz Wonderbook” was a compilation of notes from Steve Wozniak’s filing cabinet that served as the first documentation and technical support manual for the Apple II computer (before the more famous “red book” of January 1978).

A copy donated to DigiBarn Computer Museum by Bill Goldberg, longtime Apple employee.
Scanned by David Craig.
Available in Creative Commons License permitting noncommercial use with share-alike.

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Couze Venn: Occidentalism: Modernity and Subjectivity (2000)

“This book critically addresses the `becoming West’ of Europe and investigates the `becoming Modern’ of the world. Drawing on the work of Derrida, Foucault, Levinas, Lyotard, Merleau-Ponty and Ricoeur, the book proposes that the question of postmodernity is inseparable from that of post-coloniality. The argument fully conveys the sense that modernity is in crisis. It maps out a new genealogy of the birth of the modern and suggests a new way of grounding the idea of an emancipation of being.

Postcolonialism has emerged as a central topic in contemporary social science and cultural studies. This book informs readers as to the central strands of the debate and introduces a host of new ideas which will be a rich fund for other writers and researchers.”

Publisher SAGE, 2000
Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
ISBN 0761954120, 9780761954125
256 pages

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