简介：Sonic（T）的世界观之旅

简介：Sonic（T）的世界观之旅

Sonic fiction is everywhere: in conversations about vernacular culture, in music videos, sound art compositions and on record sleeves, in everyday encounters with sonic experiences and in every single piece of writing about sound. Where one can find sounds one will also detect bits of fiction. In 1998 music critic, DJ and video essayist Kodwo Eshun proposed this concept in his ...(展开全部)

The negative environmental effects of media culture are not often acknowledged: the fuel required to keep huge server farms in operation, landfills full of high tech junk, and the extraction of rare minerals for devices reliant on them are just some of the hidden costs of the contemporary mediascape. Eco-Sonic Media brings an ecological critique to the history of sound media te...(展开全部)

此书探索了声音艺术的世界，包括研究其历史与发展过程，通过考查知名艺术家的作品和言论以及时下广泛以“声音艺术”为主题的实践活动，来探知当前这些充满多样性的艺术流派的状态。书中也讨论了对科技的运用以及它们对艺术创作的冲击。另外，声音艺术与声音设计基础 还涉及到了在声音记录、表演、装置和展览方面一些激进的新方法，并且探访了声音艺术家和声音设计师们的世界。

Sonic Warfare Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear Steve Goodman Sound can be deployed to produce discomfort, express a threat, or create an ambience of fear or dread—to produce a bad vibe. Sonic weapons of this sort include the "psychoacoustic correction" aimed at Panama strongman Manuel Noriega by the U.S. Army and at the Branch Davidians in Waco by the FBI, sonic booms (or...(展开全部)

Eshun's book More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction was published in 1998 and is “At its simplest... a study of visions of the future in music from Sun Ra to 4 Hero”[1]. Written in a style that makes extensive use of neologism, re-appropriated jargon and compound words the book explores the intersection of black music and science fiction from an afro-futurist...(展开全部)

Galois modules over local and global fields form the main subject of this monograph, which can serve both as a textbook for students, and as a reference book for the working mathematician, on cohomological topics in number theory. The first part provides the necessary algebraic background. The arithmetic part deals with Galois groups of local and global fields: local Tate duali...(展开全部)

While many scientists are familiar with fractals, fewer are familiar with scale-invariance and universality which underly the ubiquity of their shapes. These properties may emerge from the collective behaviour of simple fundamental constituents, and are studied using statistical field theories. Initial chapters connect the particulate perspective developed in the companion volu...(展开全部)

Review From the reviews of the second edition: "The publication of a second edition gives me a chance to … emphasize what an important book it is. … the book a necessary part of the number theorist’s library. That it’s also well written, clear, and systematic is a very welcome bonus. … There are many goodies here … . it is an indispensable book for anyone working in number theo...(展开全部)