TAXIS reading group meetings are usually held on the second Friday of the month at 10am PST — 11am Mountain — 1pm Eastern — 6pm Dublin — 7pm Paris / Warsaw. All are welcome to join.
Upcoming meetings
(Note: Daylight Savings in the US begins March 14, 2021; in Ireland/UK, March 28, 2021)
13 August 2021
Noise control
Hagood, Mack. 2019. Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control. Durham: Duke University Press.
Past meetings
(This list is non-exhaustive)
12 March 2021
Non-anthropocentric histories of sound and technology (Mundy, Born)
Born, Georgina. 2019. “On Nonhuman Sound: Sound as Relation.” In Sound Objects, 185–211. Duke University Press.
Mundy, Rachel. 2018. Animal Musicalities: Birds, Beasts, and Evolutionary Listening. Music/Culture. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press.
9 April 2021
Tkaczyk, Viktoria, Mara Mills, and Alexandra Hui. 2020. Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality. Oxford University Press.
Volmar, Axel. 2018. “Experiencing High Fidelity: Sound Reproduction and the Politics of Music Listening in the Twentieth Century.” In The Oxford Handbook of Music Listening in the 19th and 20th Centuries, edited by Christian Thorau and Hansjakob Ziemer. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190466961.013.19.
14 May 2021
Moten, Fred. 2003. In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
11 June 2021
Time-critical approaches from media theory
Ernst, Wolfgang. 2016. Chronopoetics: The Temporal Being and Operativity of Technological Media. London: Rowman & Littlefield International.
9 July 2021
Sound media as national and international infrastructures of culture
Jones, Andrew F. 2020. Circuit Listening: Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Yasar, Kerim. 2018. Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868-1945. Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. New York: Columbia University Press.