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In Diminished Faculties Jonathan Sterne offers a sweeping cultural study and theorization of impairment. Drawing on his personal history with thyroid cancer and a paralyzed vocal cord, Sterne undertakes a political phenomenology of impairment in which experience is understood from the standpoint of a subject that is not fully able to account for itself. He conceives of impairment as a fundamental dimension of human experience, examining it as ...

In Diminished Faculties Jonathan Sterne offers a sweeping cultural study and theorization of impairment. Drawing on his personal history with thyroid cancer and a paralyzed vocal cord, Sterne undertakes a political phenomenology of impairment in which experience is understood from the standpoint of a subject that is not fully able to account for itself. He conceives of impairment as a fundamental dimension of human experience, examining it as ...

Our Sentimental Journey through France and Italy is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1882. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Ha...

Jonathan Sterne teaches in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies, and the History and Philosophy of Science Program at McGill University. He is the author of the award-winning book The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction, also published by Duke University Press, and the editor of The Sound Studies Reader. Sterne has written for Tape Op, Punk Planet, Bad Subjects, and other alternative press venues. He also ma...

Demonstrates that formats, standards, and infrastructures are every bit as central to communication as the boxes we call "media

Cultural study of the development of sound technology in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from telephones and stethoscopes to record players.

Cultural study of the development of sound technology in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from telephones and stethoscopes to record players.

The Sound Studies Reader is a groundbreaking anthology blending recent work that self-consciously describes itself as sound studies along with earlier and lesser known scholarship on sound.The collection begins with an introduction to welcome novice readers to the field and acquaint them the main issues in sound studies, followed by a new essay by the editor providing an intellectual history of sound studies. Individual section introductions g...