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  • Recomposed

    Music, Climate, Crisis, Change

    by Kyle Devine ...
    CAN MUSIC SAVE THE WORLD?We are witnessing a climate-oriented transformation of what music is and how it comes to be. Recomposed shows how musicians around the world are using the cultural power of music to link climate awareness to climate action.Award-winning author and academic Kyle Devine profiles EarthPercent, founded by Brian Eno and others to help funnel money from the music business to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Decomposed

    The Political Ecology of Music

    by Kyle Devine ...
    The hidden material histories of music.Music is seen as the most immaterial of the arts, and recorded music as a progress of dematerialization—an evolution from physical discs to invisible digits. In Decomposed, Kyle Devine offers another perspective. He shows that recorded music has always been a significant exploiter of both natural and human resources, and that its reliance on these resources ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Audible Infrastructures

    Edited by Kyle Devine, Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier ...
    Series series Critical Conjunctures in Music and Sound
    Our day-to-day musical enjoyment seems so simple, so easy, so automatic. Songs instantly emanate from our computers and phones, at any time of day. The tools for playing and making music, such as records and guitars, wait for us in stores, ready for purchase and use. And when we no longer need them, we can leave them at the curb, where they disappear effortlessly and without a trace. These casual ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Living Stereo

    Histories and Cultures of Multichannel Sound

    Edited by Paul Théberge, Kyle Devine, Tom Everrett ...
    Stereo is everywhere. The whole culture and industry of music and sound became organized around the principle of stereophony during the twentieth century. But nothing about this-not the invention or acceptance or ubiquity of stereo-was inevitable. Nor did the aesthetic conventions, technological objects, and listening practices required to make sense of stereo emerge fully formed, out of the blue ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music

    Edited by John Shepherd, Kyle Devine ...
    The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music offers the first collection of source readings and new essays on the latest thinking in the sociology of music. Interest in music sociology has increased dramatically over the past decade, yet there is no anthology of essential and introductory readings. The volume includes a comprehensive survey of the field’s history, current state and future ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

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  • The Real World of Technology

    by Ursula Franklin ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    In this expanded edition of her bestselling 1989 CBC Massey Lectures, renowned scientist and humanitarian Ursula M. Franklin examines the impact of technology upon our lives and addresses the extraordinary changes since The Real World of Technology was first published. In four new chapters, Franklin tackles contentious issues, such as the dilution of privacy and intellectual property rights, the ... Read more

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    "Theway Brockman interlaces essays about research on the frontiers of science withones on artistic vision, education, psychology and economics is sure to buzzany brain." — Chicago Sun-Times , on This Will Change EverythingLaunchinga hard-hitting new series from Edge.org and Harper Perennial, editor JohnBrockman delivers this cutting-edge master class covering everything you needto know about ... Read more

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  • Pressed for Time

    The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism

    by Judy Wajcman ...
    "A splendid new book. . . . Takes on—and mostly demolishes—the conventional narrative about the acceleration of life in a digital world." ― ObserverMost of us complain that there aren't enough hours in the day and too many e-mails in our thumb-accessible inboxes. This widespread perception that life is faster than it used to be is now ingrained in our culture, and smartphones and the Internet are ... Read more

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  • Technology Matters

    Questions to Live With

    by David E. Nye ...
    Discusses in nontechnical language ten central questions about technology that illuminate what technology is and why it matters.Technology matters, writes David Nye, because it is inseparable from being human. We have used tools for more than 100,000 years, and their central purpose has not always been to provide necessities. People excel at using old tools to solve new problems and at inventing ... Read more

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  • Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis

    Neoliberal Exceptionalism and the Culture of Uncare

    by Sally Weintrobe ...
    Series series Psychoanalytic Horizons
    Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis tells the story of a fundamental fight between a caring and an uncaring imagination. It helps us to recognise the uncaring imagination in politics, in culture - for example in the writings of Ayn Rand - and also in ourselves.Sally Weintrobe argues that achieving the shift to greater care requires us to stop colluding with Exceptionalism, the rigid ... Read more

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  • The Future and Its Enemies

    The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise,

    by Virginia Postrel ...
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