On September 10, 2021 we were joined by Deirdre Loughridge (Associate Professor, Northeastern University) to discuss her work-in-progress, “Automaton Encounters: Vaucanson’s Flute-Player, Graffigny’s Letters & The Pleasure before Anxiety.” This excerpt was based on research she is conducting for her … Continue reading
Hi friends – Please join us for the next TAXIS open reading group meeting. In August, we are reading around the theme of noise control, focusing on: Hagood, M. (2019) Hush: Media and Sonic Self-control. Durham: Duke University Press (Sign, … Continue reading
Hi friends – Please join us for the next TAXIS open reading group meeting. In July we are reading around the theme of radio and popular music in China and Japan, focusing on two works: Jones, Andrew F. 2020. Circuit … Continue reading
Hello everyone, Please join us for the next TAXIS open reading group meeting. This month we are reading around the theme of time-criticality, a concept developed by media theorist Wolfgang Ernst in the last couple of decades. We’ll be reading … Continue reading
Hello everyone, Please join us for the next TAXIS open reading group meeting. This month we are reading around the theme of The Treatise. We’ll be reading an important interdisciplinary text that deals heavily with music, by the cultural theorist … Continue reading
Hello everyone, Please join us for the next TAXIS open reading group meeting. This month we are reading around the theme of Empiricism(s). We’ll be reading: Tkaczyk, Viktoria, Mara Mills, and Alexandra Hui, eds. 2020. Testing Hearing: The Making of … Continue reading
Hello everyone, Please join us for the next TAXIS open reading group meeting. This month we are reading around the theme of Non-anthropocentric histories of sound and technology. The assigned readings are: Born, Georgina. “On Nonhuman Sound—Sound as Relation.” In … Continue reading
All page references are to Adorno, Theodor W. (Robert Hullot-Kentor, trans.) Current of Music: Elements of a Radio Theory. English edition. Cambridge: Polity, 2009. Chapter VII: Ubiquity-Standardization and Pseudo-Activity a) Preliminary Notes on Terminology and Method (92) Adorno reemphasizes that … Continue reading
Hi everyone, We’re looking forward to kicking things off for 2020 with Adorno’s essay “Radio Physiognomics”, which Adorno prepared while he was affiliated with the long-running Princeton Radio Project in the late 30s to the early 1940s. Adorno was never … Continue reading
Hello all, A note to say that our next meeting is this Friday October 23 at 12p.m. / 5p.m. as usual. Following the results of the poll below, we’ll be reading Melle Kromhout’s recent publication, “Hearing Pastness and Presence” (2020), … Continue reading