Dominic Pettman
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(In Defense of Tool) 1. I recall one of those semi-satirical listicles popularized by online culture magazines, titled “What His Favorite Band Says About Him.” When it came to Tool, the answer was, “either he’s very very dumb, or very very smart.” Certainly, Tool is not a name to bring up in polite company. For…
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It is often argued that contemporary media homogenize our thoughts and actions, without us being fully aware of the restrictions they impose. But what if the problem is not that we are all synchronized to the same motions or moments, but rather dispersed into countless different emotional micro-experiences? What if the effect of so-called social…
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Sonic Intimacy asks us who—or what—deserves to have a voice, beyond the human. Arguing that our ears are far too narrowly attuned to our own species, the book explores four different types of voices: the cybernetic, the gendered, the creaturely, and the ecological. Through both a conceptual framework and a series of case studies, Dominic…
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