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The Baffler Magazine #44

Submitted by steev on 28. June 2019 - 15:10.

The Baffler Magazine #44

author: Thomas Frank

name: Steev

average rating: 4.00

book published:

rating: 5

read at:

date added: 2019/06/28

shelves: politics, own-it, fun

review:

Ways of Hearing

Submitted by steev on 9. June 2019 - 7:37.

Ways of Hearing

author: Damon Krukowski

name: Steev

average rating: 3.79

book published:

rating: 5

read at:

date added: 2019/06/09

shelves: art, politics, own-it

review:
This is a really great book. As soon as I saw it I knew I had to get it and read it ASAP. But YMMV. I'm a sound/noise/music/art guy, so am definitely biased.

Anyway, it's about way more than sound and music. It's about what the internet and the digital world we're in now has done to us and our culture and our society.

The design of the book reminds me of McLuhan's The Medium is the Massage. The title is a nod to John Berger, and the book does a good job of aspiring to, but isn't quite get up to the level of, Berger's perspective-shifting book Ways of Seeing. But almost.

Highly recommended to anyone with similar obsessions to my own.