W. J. Thomas Mitchell: Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology (1986)
Filed under book | Tags: · art, art criticism, ideology, image, literary criticism, media theory, visual culture
“Mitchell undertakes to explore the nature of images by comparing them with words, or, more precisely, by looking at them from the viewpoint of verbal language.”
Publisher University of Chicago Press, 1986
ISBN 0226532291, 9780226532295
x+226 pages
Reviews: Lee B. Brown (The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 1986), Roger Seamon (Canadian Philosophical Reviews, 1986), Patrick Maynard (London Review of Books, 1988), Anna J. Smith (Philosophy and Literature, 1988), Stefan Beyst (2010).
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Comment (0)Veit Erlmann (ed.): Hearing Cultures. Essays on Sound, Listening and Modernity (2004)
Filed under book | Tags: · acoustics, ethnomusicology, listening, modernity, music, sound recording
Vision is typically treated as the defining sense of the modern era and a powerful vehicle for colonial and postcolonial domination. This is in marked contrast to the almost total absence of accounts of hearing in larger cultural processes.
Hearing Cultures is a timely examination of the elusive, often evocative, and sometimes cacophonous auditory sense – from the intersection of sound and modernity, through to the relationship between audio-technological advances and issues of personal and urban space. As cultures and communities grapple with the massive changes wrought by modernization and globalization, Hearing Cultures presents an important new approach to understanding our world. It answers such intriguing questions as:
· Did people in Shakespeare’s time hear differently from us?
· In what way does technology affect our ears?
· Why do people in Egypt increasingly listen to taped religious sermons?
· Why did Enlightenment doctors believe that music was an essential cure?
· What happens acoustically in cross-cultural first encounters?
· Why do Runa Indians in the Amazon basin now consider onomatopoetic speech child’s talk?
The ear, as much as the eye, nose, mouth and hand, offers a way into experience. All five senses are instruments that record, interpret and engage with the world. This book shows how sound offers a refreshing new lens through which to examine culture and complex social issues.
Publisher Berg Publishers, 2004
Sensory Formations series
ISBN 1859738281, 9781859738283
239 pages
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Comment (0)Adam, Beck, van Loon (eds.): The Risk Society and Beyond. Critical Issues for Social Theory (2000)
Filed under book | Tags: · biotechnology, genetics, genome mapping, politics, risk society, social theory, sociology, utopia
Ulrich Beck’s best selling Risk Society established risk on the sociological agenda. It brought together a wide range of issues centering on environmental, health and personal risk, provided a rallying ground for researchers and activists in a variety of social movements and acted as a reference point for state and local policies in risk management. The Risk Society and Beyond charts the progress of Beck’s ideas and traces their evolution. It demonstrates why the issues raised by Beck reverberate widely throughout social theory and covers the new risks that Beck did not foresee, associated with the emergence of new technologies, genetic and cybernetic. The book is unique because it offers both an introduction to the main arguments in Risk Society and develops a range of critical discussions of aspects of this and other works of Beck.
Editors Barbara Adam, Ulrich Beck, Joost van Loon
Publisher SAGE, 2000
ISBN 076196469X, 9780761964698
232 pages
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