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Oct 31, 2023 | ISBN 9780262549615

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Table Of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Preface xi
Introduction 1
I Resonances 19
1 Hearing Perspectives 21
2 From Agency to Practice 40
3 Green Belts in Goethe ’ s City 41
4 Stories Told of Sonic Reals 50
5 Four Ears, or Listening as Making 53
6 Can Architecture Hear? 62
7 Hearing View 65
8 Affects and Atmospheres 80
9 Tuning 83
II Cellular Vitality 85
1 A Living Machine? 88
2 Suspicions of a Wet Kind 92
3 Experiments in a Lab at the End of the World 94
4 The Tissue Culture Point of View — Part I 107
5 Techniques for Immortality 113
6 The Tissue Culture Point of View — Part II 116
7 Surface Tensions 119
8 The Tissue Culture Point of View — Part III 121
9 A Tutorial on Muscle Cell Energetics 124
10 Where the Art Is .   .   . 126
11 The Tacit Knowing of Tissue 127
12 A Revealing School Seminar 136
13 Goals and Purposes 138
14 Tissue Culture Hands On 141
15 Life ’ s Triumph in the Dish 150
16 Eight Failed Experiments in Substrate Sketching 152
17 Reflections on Bare Life at the Bench 155
18 Collagen Trials While the Clock Ticks 157
19 Suspension 162
20 Is Life in Bodies? 163
III Sensorium 167
1 Limens 169
2 Mediations of Sensation 170
3 Three Tensions 176
4 Four Seminars in Sensory Experience 178
5 Translation and Enactment 188
6 Atmospheres Unveiled 190
7 Technologies of the Senses 193
8 Seeding Alter 195
9 How to Invoke the Cosmos 201
10 Experience Near-Far 210
11 The Missing Sense 211
12 The Conditions of Sensory Assemblage 214
13 Displace 225
14 “ Death, Limbo, and then Heaven down the Hall ” 228
15 Is Sense in Culture? 235
Conclusion: Is the World a Laboratory? 239
Afterword by Andrew Pickering 243
Notes 247
References 273
Index 297

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