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OverviewIn Atmospheric Noise, Marina Peterson traces entanglements of environmental noise, atmosphere, sense, and matter that cohere in and through encounters with airport noise since the 1960s. Exploring spaces shaped by noise around Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), she shows how noise is a way of attuning toward the atmospheric: through noise we learn to listen to the sky and imagine the permeability of bodies and matter, sensing and conceiving that which is diffuse, indefinite, vague, and unformed. In her account, the ""atmospheric"" encompasses the physicality of the ephemeral, dynamic assemblages of matter as well as a logic of indeterminacy. It is audible as well as visible, heard as much as breathed. Peterson develops a theory of ""indefinite urbanism"" to refer to marginalized spaces of the city where concrete meets sky, windows resonate with the whine of departing planes, and endangered butterflies live under flight paths. Offering a conceptualization of sound as immanent and non-objectified, she demonstrates ways in which noise is central to how we know, feel, and think atmospherically. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Marina PetersonPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.499kg ISBN: 9781478010708ISBN 10: 1478010703 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 26 February 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Aerial Attunements 19 2. Noise Annoys 45 3. Environmental Imaginaries 77 4. Murmurs: Experiments in Glitching 105 5. Vibrating Matter 129 6. Indefinite Urbanism 155 Notes 185 References 207 Index 231ReviewsAn exemplary experiment in compositional thinking and writing, Atmospheric Noise buzzes with conceptual and methodological inventiveness. Through the style in which it deftly traces the uneven emergence and refraction of urban noise across archives, concepts, bodies, regulations, and experience, Marina Peterson's book brilliantly performs its own argument about the importance of an ethos of informed listening. Atmospheric Noise should be on the bookshelf of anyone interested in understanding and writing about the atmospheric conditions of worlds. --Derek P. McCormack, author of Atmospheric Things: On the Allure of Elemental Envelopment An exemplary experiment in compositional thinking and writing, Atmospheric Noise buzzes with conceptual and methodological inventiveness. Through the style in which it deftly traces the uneven emergence and refraction of urban noise across archives, concepts, bodies, regulations, and experience, Marina Peterson's book brilliantly performs its own argument about the importance of an ethos of informed listening. Atmospheric Noise should be on the bookshelf of anyone interested in understanding and writing about the atmospheric conditions of worlds. -- Derek P. McCormack, author of * Atmospheric Things: On the Allure of Elemental Envelopment * Writing in and through the movements of people, butterflies, planes, and homes; the shifts in environmental discourse; and varied human-nonhuman entanglements, Marina Peterson brings us a story and a book that will resonate across fields for years to come. Original, compelling, and evocative. -- Nicole Starosielski, author of * The Undersea Network * Peterson's prose is always lyric, tidal almost, but she sacrifices neither scholarly rigor nor theoretical ferocity in her pursuit of how sound gets us into questions, spaces, activities, constructions, and the politics of infrastructure. Atmospheric Noise is the story of a city remade (parts indeed sacrificed) around an airport, flight paths, and racket. It's also the story of instrumentation, calibration, and how we both measure and experience what we claim to know. It's a shining example of what, with care, ethnography can be. -- Gretchen Bakke * Public Books * Peterson conceptualizes the act of listening as an intervention into the atmosphere, which originates these categories and definitions, while sound itself remains immaterial and unquantifiable. Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals. * Choice * Atmospheric Noise is an engaging and timely piece of scholarship. At its most successful, the work draws jarring, cacophonous resonances between the science and engineering of acoustics, urban political economy, governmentality, the metaphysics of sound, and the social construction of ecology and environment. It amplifies the possibilities of social science inquiry in its call for attunement to noise, to sound, to an atmospheric sensibility as method. -- Andrew Merrill * Public * Writing in and through the movements of people, butterflies, planes, and homes; the shifts in environmental discourse; and varied human-nonhuman entanglements, Marina Peterson brings us a story and a book that will resonate across fields for years to come. Original, compelling, and evocative. -- Nicole Starosielski, author of * The Undersea Network * An exemplary experiment in compositional thinking and writing, Atmospheric Noise buzzes with conceptual and methodological inventiveness. Through the style in which it deftly traces the uneven emergence and refraction of urban noise across archives, concepts, bodies, regulations, and experience, Marina Peterson's book brilliantly performs its own argument about the importance of an ethos of informed listening. Atmospheric Noise should be on the bookshelf of anyone interested in understanding and writing about the atmospheric conditions of worlds. -- Derek P. McCormack, author of * Atmospheric Things: On the Allure of Elemental Envelopment * Author InformationMarina Peterson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin, author of Sound, Space, and the City: Civic Performance in Downtown Los Angeles, and coeditor of Between Matter and Method: Encounters in Anthropology and Art. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |