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Can I read Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear (Technologies of Lived Abstraction) on EtoBox?

Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear (Technologies of Lived Abstraction) by Steve Goodman is a music available to read on EtoBox.

What is Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear (Technologies of Lived Abstraction) about?

An exploration of the production, transmission, and mutation of affective tonality—when sound helps produce a bad vibe. 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 “sound bombs”) over the Gaza Strip, and high-frequency rat repella

Who reads Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear (Technologies of Lived Abstraction)?

It is typically read by artists, cooks, musicians and hobbyists working from how-to references.

Common subject areas: arts, cooking, music, crafts.

Author
Steve Goodman
Publisher
The MIT Press
Published
2010
Language
EN
ISBN
9780262266338
Category
music
Subjects
Philosophy, Science, Computer Science
Rating
4.3 / 5 (52 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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