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Theory as "A Plan" – Asking about the Effects of Zeno’s Dichotomy Paradox in Analytic Work
Developing an analogy between theories and plans in articulating a theory of epistemics in planning, this project has grown out of my multiyear involv
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Musica vox – cantus – sonus: Late Medieval Concepts of Sound and Listening
To historical musicologists, the recent formation of Sound Studies offers both an amplification of and a counternarrative to our inherited understandi
Fragile Sound, Silent History: Recording Eastern Europe
This project is a study of vernacular recording cultures in twentieth-century Eastern Europe, built on a series of case studies that foreground the te
Beating Reeds: Sounding Appunn’s 1876 Harmonium Tonometers
In November 2018, it was declared that the kilogram, embodied by a platinum cylinder stored in Paris since 1889, would henceforth be defined by the&nb
Inventing the Decibel: An Episode in the History of Sonic Thinking
In late 1920s New York, telephone engineers publicly measured city noise using equipment from mass hearing tests, and named the results as percentages
Keyboard Playing and the Reconceptualization of Polyphonic Music in Early Modern Italy
In early modern Italy, seminal changes in the concept and structure of polyphony were rooted in a shift of praxis defined by the increasing role of ke
Crafting Life: Stonemasonry, Apprenticeship, and the Repair of the Built Environment
This project centers on an ethnography of a stonemasonry workshop attached to St Mary’s Cathedral in Edinburgh, Scotland. St Mary's is a nineteenth-ce
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 Discovery of the Plastisphere—a History of Science of Plastic Pollution
This research and podcast project by guest researcher and journalist Anja Krieger deals with the environmental issue of plastic pollution, which has r
Organized Wisdom and Revenge of the Humdrum
Right from the beginning, the term "bureaucracy" was a sneer or an accusation, to be contrasted with organized wisdom. Officials concerned with produc