Thinking with Sound

A New Program in the Sciences and Humanities around 1900

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Thinking with Sound traces the formation of auditory knowledge in the sciences and humanities in the decades around 1900. When the outside world is silent, all sorts of sounds often come to mind: inner voices, snippets of past conversations, imaginary debates, beloved and unloved melodies. What should we make of such sonic companions? Thinking with Sound investigates a period when these and other newly perceived aural phenomena prompted a far-reaching debate. Through case studies from Paris, Vienna, and Berlin, Viktoria Tkaczyk shows that the identification of the auditory cortex in late nineteenth-century neuroanatomy affected numerous academic disciplines across the sciences and humanities. “Thinking with sound” allowed scholars and scientists to bridge the gaps between theoretical and practical knowledge, and between academia and the social, aesthetic, and industrial domains. As new recording technologies prompted new scientific questions, new auditory knowledge found application in industry and the broad aesthetic realm. Through these conjunctions, Thinking with Sound offers a deeper understanding of today’s second “acoustic turn” in science and scholarship.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-02-07
Mått152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt567 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagThe University of Chicago Press
ISBN9780226823287

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Viktoria Tkaczyk is professor in the musicology and media studies department at Humboldt University Berlin, specializing in media and knowledge techniques. She is the author of an award-winning German book on the history of flight fantasies and has coauthored several publications in both German and English. Most recently, she coedited Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality with Alexandra Hui and Mara Mills.

List of Illustrations1. Introduction: Disciplining Auditory Cognition2. The Sonic Unconscious: Neuropathology and Psychoanalysis3. Auditory Images: Linguistics and Metaphysics4. Sound as a Comparative Object: Physics Meets Psychology5. Aural Attention: Muscle Feelings and the Quest for Authority in the Arts6. New Brains, Ears, and Tongues: Disciplines of Language Planning7. Conclusion: Time LeapsAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

“Sound turned the world on its ear around 1900. Tkaczyk takes us to the primal scenes of modern thought—with an unheard-of twist. Charcot’s tuning fork and Freud’s hearing cap, Saussure’s gramophone and Ernst Mach’s concert halls, Carl Stumpf’s interference apparatus and Otto Abraham’s parrot all reverberate in this rich intellectual soundscape, explaining how these influential new fields of knowledge emerged in tandem with new auditory techniques for speech, music, and noise. Cutting joyously across disciplinary divides, this remarkable book shows how the modern humanities truly learned to ‘think with sound.’”