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The future of post-human acoustics : a preface to a new theory of sound and silence /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge International Science Pub.,
Ã2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Future ofPost-Human Acoustics; The Future of Post-Human Acoustics. A Preface to a New Theoryof Sound and Silence; CONTENTS; Part One: Introduction; Part Two: Sound; Part Three: Silence; Part Four: Conclusion; TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; PART ONE Introduction; CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION
- THE IMPORTANCE OF ACOUSTICS; The Questionability of a Conventional Wisdom; Acoustics in Relation to Sound and Silence; Sound; Silence; The Diverse Sub-Fields of Acoustics; The Theoretical Debate; The Mental Argument; The Natural Argument; The Societal Argument; The Cultural Argument.
- The Multilateral ArgumentThe Multilateral Theory of Acoustics; Theory and Meta-Theory; The Classification of Theory and Meta-Theory; A Unified Theory of Everything; The Logic of Existential Dialectics; The Conception of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontics); The Syntax of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontomethodologyand Ontologic); The Semantics of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontosemantics); The Pragmatics of Existential Dialectics (or ItsOntopragmatics); Sophisticated Methodological Holism; Chapter Outline; Some Clarifications; In Conversation with My Previous Books.
- Case Studies and ExamplesDetailed Analysis versus Overall Synthesis; Two Distinctive Features of Using Quotations; The Use of!eologisms; PART TWO Sound; CHAPTER 2. SOUND AND ITS DOUBLENESS; The Orderliness of Sound; Sound and the Mind; Sound, Perception Limits, and the Psychoacoustic Model; Sound, Noise Sensibility, and Extroversion-Introversion; Sound and Nature; Sound, Animals, and Survival; Sound, Earthquakes, and Seismology; Sound and Society; Sound, Underwater Acoustics, and Naval Warfare; Sound, Small Talk, and Social Skills; Sound and Culture.
- Sound, Harmonic Series, and Musical CultureSound, and Noise Aesthetics; The Disturbance of Sound; PART THREE Silence; CHAPTER 3. SILENCE AND ITS DUALITY; The Serenity of Silence; Silence and the Mind; Silence, Deafness, and the Mask of Benevolence; Silence, Stuttering, and Speech Disorder; Silence and Nature; Silence, Infrasound, Animals, and Ghosts; Silence and Society; Silence, Noise-Control, and Architectural Acoustics; Silence, the Right to Quiet Enjoyment, and the Law; Silence and Culture; Silence, Contemplation, and Religion; Silence, Abduction, and the Rhetorical Device in Debate.
- The Turmoil of SilencePART FOUR Conclusion; CHAPTER 4. CONCLUSION
- THE FUTURE OF ACOUSTICS; Beyond Sound and Silence; 1st Thesis: The Absoluteness-Relativeness Principle; 2nd Thesis: The Predictability-Unpredictability Principle; 3rd Thesis: The Explicability-Inexplicability Principle; 4th Thesis: The Preciseness-Vagueness Principle; 5th Thesis: The Simpleness-Complicatedness Principle; 6th Thesis: The Openness-Hiddenness Principle; 7th Thesis: The Denseness-Emptiness Principle; 8th Thesis: The Slowness-Quickness Principle; 9th Thesis: The Expansion-Contraction Principle.