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 →

Dear group members, There was a bit of a delay getting this started (turns out dissertations take time to write??) but Eamonn and I had a brief chat and felt like the end of the year would be a good … Continue reading →

Here is the group blog for a Humanities Commons group to facilitate the discussion of sound and technology as well as their past-present-future histories. – Eamonn