Rasmus Fleischer: Det Postdigitala Manifestet: Hur musik äger rum (2009) [Swedish]

Upptäckandet av ny musik går idag oändligt mycket snabbare än före internet. Vi känner till mycket mer musik, fyller fickorna med mängder musik som för inte länge sedan vore ofattbara. Men hur är det möjligt att välja? Hur är det med vår förmåga att sättas i rörelse av musik?

Det senaste decenniets digitalisering har skapat helt nya villkor för vårt förhållande till musik. Fram till i slutet av 1990-talet kunde skivbolagen och etermedierna fortfarande reglera utbudet. Sedan sprack cd-bubblan och musiklandskapet svämmade över. Idag är musikutbudet oöverblickbart.

I Det postdigitala manifestet sonderar Rasmus Fleischer överflödets terräng. Den utmaning som vi ställs inför i den postdigitala kulturen är inte att producera ännu fler låtar, utan att gallra i överflödet. Någon måste välja. Detta ofrånkomliga urval aktualiserar frågor om makt och ansvar. Musik är inte ljudfiler på en hårddisk eller noter på ett blad, utan en form av samvaro och gemenskap.

Kopimi ^^ Rasmus Fleischer 2009
Publisher Ink bokförlag, Stockholm
ISBN: 978-91-973-586-9-9

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Sungook Hong: Wireless: From Marconi’s Black-Box to the Audion (2001)

By 1897 Guglielmo Marconi had transformed James Clerk Maxwell’s theory of electromagnetic waves into a workable wireless telegraphy system, and by 1907 Lee de Forest had invented the audion, a feedback amplifier and oscillator that opened the way to practical radio transmission. Fifteen years after Marconi’s invention, wireless had become an essential means of communication, as well as a hobby for many.

This book offers a new perspective on the early days of wireless communication. Drawing on previously untapped archival evidence and recent work in the history and sociology of science and technology, it examines the substance and context of both experimental and theoretical aspects of engineering and scientific practices in the first years of this technology. It offers new insights into the relationship between Marconi and his scientific advisor, the physicist John Ambrose Fleming (inventor of the vacuum tube). It includes the full story of the infamous 1903 incident in which Marconi’s opponent Nevil Maskelyne interfered with Fleming’s public demonstration of Marconi’s syntonic (tuning) system at the Royal Institution by sending derogatory messages from his own transmitter. The analysis of the Maskelyne affair highlights the struggle between Marconi and his opponents, the efficacy of early syntonic devices, Fleming’s role as a public witness to Marconi’s private experiments, and the nature of Marconi’s “shows.” It also provides a rare case study of how the credibility of an engineer can be created, consumed, and suddenly destroyed. The book concludes with a discussion of de Forest’s audion and the shift from wireless telegraphy to radio.

Publisher MIT Press, 2001
Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology series
ISBN 0262082985, 9780262082983
248 pages

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Sarai Media Lab (eds.): Sensor-Census-Sensor: An International Colloquium on Information, Society, History and Politics. A Report (2007)

This book is a report on the International Colloquium that took place from November 30th, 2006 to December 2nd, 2006

Critical examination and investigation of the regimes and technologies of information harvesting, management, circulation and deployment as they have developed in India and Europe from early modernity till today.

The colloquium was organized by the Sarai Programme at CSDS, Delhi, in collaboration with the Waag Society, Amsterdam, and t0, Vienna, under the rubric of the network titled ‘Towards a Culture of Open Networks’

Sensor-Census-Sensor: Investigating Circuits of Information, Registering Changes of State
Produced and designed at the Sarai Media Lab, Delhi
Published by: The Sarai Programme, Delhi, India, November 2007
ISBN 9788190585378

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