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The Mississippi Project: Disclosing the Anthropocene in the American Heartland
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Distillation in China: Elixirs, New Medicines, and Liquors
Distilling is thousands of years old but was originally confined to just a few areas, where it was probably independently invented. Later the tec
The Information Order of the Prussian Frontier, 1772–1806
In 1793 the Prussian government conducted a survey, called the Indaganda (things which must be hunted or tracked down), of towns in the province of So
The Sound of Books: West Berlin’s Staatsbibliothek between Postwar City Visions, Organizational Cybernetics, and Heterotopia
In 1978, West Berlin opened its impressive new State Library, the Staatsbibliothek at Potsdamer Strasse, designed by Hans Scharoun around an open, 600
Acoustic Surveillance in Brazil
In Seeing Like a State (1998), James Scott argues that legibility is of paramount importance for modern statecraft. The creation of an administrative
Artisan Knowledge and Musical Instrument Making in South India
How do craftspeople know what they know? How is acoustic knowledge embodied in skills and labor? How do instrument makers relate to musicians as instr
Secondary Sounds: A History of Perception through Routine Experimental Practices in the Psychological Laboratory
Sometimes, the dull sound of tapping on a shoe box could be heard in the lab. At other times, much more complex installations of interconnected instru
Article by Postdoctoral Fellow Maria Avxentevskaya for The Conversation reprinted in MaxPlanckForschung
Go to ArticleArtificial “Listening”: From Fechner to Sensor Fusion
At the MPIWG, I will develop one chapter of a larger forthcoming book for MIT Press that focuses on how we make sense in our current age of artificial
Artist in Residence: World Factory
After food and shelter, clothing is probably the essential feature of human civilization, creating and representing economic, state, and soc
Cooperation Partners, BICC at the University of Manchester