{"product_id":"listening-in-the-afterlife-of-data-9781478017912","title":"Listening in the Afterlife of Data","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eListening in the Afterlife of Data\u003c\/i\u003e, David Cecchetto theorizes sound, communication, and data by analyzing them in the contexts of the practical workings of specific technologies, situations, and artworks. In a time he calls the afterlife of data—the cultural context in which data’s hegemony persists even in the absence of any belief in its validity—Cecchetto shows how data is repositioned as the latest in a long line of concepts that are at once constitutive of communication and suggestive of its limits. Cecchetto points to the failures and excesses of communication by focusing on the power of listening—whether through wearable technology, internet-based artwork, or the ways in which computers process sound—to pragmatically comprehend the representational excesses that data produces. Writing at a cultural moment in which data has never been more ubiquitous or less convincing, Cecchetto elucidates the paradoxes that are constitutive of computation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“David Cecchetto makes an insightful, exciting, and original intervention in the possibility (or impossibility) of relating to humans and machines and, in pure pragmatist spirit, thinking and doing. Addressing urgent questions about the role, use, and scope of computational data within contemporary society and culture, Cecchetto challenges established orthodoxies that interpret relationships between the universal and the particular within communication. \u003ci\u003eListening in the Afterlife of Data\u003c\/i\u003e will have a great impact in media and sound studies. It is a precious resource.” -- M. Beatrice Fazi, author of * Contingent Computation: Abstraction, Experience, and Indeterminacy in Computational Aesthetics *\u003cbr\u003e“Rich in paradoxical thought, David Cecchetto’s book explores the incommunication at the heart of communication. Doubling the paradox doubling, he finds that incommunication nevertheless always communicates something. Challenging and intensely rewarding, this book is highly recommended for any interested in data, communication, and listening as an aesthetic response as well as an acoustic sense.” -- N. Katherine Hayles, author of * Postprint: Books and Becoming Computational *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Incommunication  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Networking Sound and Medium Specificity  21\u003cbr\u003e 2. Listening and Technicity  44\u003cbr\u003e 3. Incomputable and Integral Incommunications  62\u003cbr\u003e 4. Algorithms, Art, and Sonicity  84\u003cbr\u003e 5. Listening and Technicity (Once and for All, Again and Again)  105\u003cbr\u003e Postscript. Epidemiological Afterlives  124\u003cbr\u003e Appendix. Aural Incommunications Seminar Prompt  131\u003cbr\u003e Notes  135\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  155\u003cbr\u003e Index  163","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409007157591,"sku":"9781478017912","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478017912.jpg?v=1730505065","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/listening-in-the-afterlife-of-data-9781478017912","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}