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https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/design-thinking-a-quick-overview

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Random refs

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260038739_Theoretical_Perspectives_of_How_Digital_Natives_Learn

https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/what-data-compression-does-your-music

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/comments/2dwj84/why_does_hold_music_always_sound_so_terrible/

https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/RC-015228/homo-digitalis/

“rural africans” http://www.posgrado.unam.mx/musica/div/pdf/SoundStudies/Schafer.pdf

“higher sounds” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10768-y

https://technological-simplicity.com/post-tech-or-post-technology-post-digital-technology-1cda37caff13

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The Posthuman World of Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by elisa tamminen

In the landscape of twentieth century science fiction, Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? stands out as a visionary dystopian narrative that deals with central metaphysical concerns of human subjectivity and ontology in an age of advanced biotechnology and artificial intelligence. The present thesis explores the storyworld and plot of the novel through the lens of posthumanism, a paradigm of philosophical inquiry that calls into question our fundamental understanding of what it means to be human by examining the ways in which humans relate to non-human entities and environments. The aim of the thesis is to show how two strands of posthumanist thought, transhumanism and critical posthumanism, manifest throughout the narrative.

The post-apocalyptic technoculture depicted in the novel provides a setting for deep posthuman anxiety and vulnerability, which stems mainly from the android challenging the human as a unique subject and strict ontological category. The novel presents a critique of the anthropocentric and speciesist values enforced by a transhumanist world view that is preoccupied with the advancement of the human condition beyond its biological and earthly limitations. Both animals and androids serve as commodified objects for humans to define themselves against, but what the novel reveals is the illusory nature of these boundaries, and the flaws of such an anthropocentric and Cartesian way of thinking. Dick’s vision of the future anticipated the dangers of a society characterized by the increasingly simulated nature of existence brought on by pervasive technological innovations. The novel exposes the pitfalls of transhumanist vision of the posthuman form that perpetuates the mechanization of humans and the humanization of machines, while still clinging on to the essentialized view of humans as dominant beings. By the end of the novel, however, the main characters, Deckard and Isidore, have transformative experiences through which they embrace a posthuman view of the world based on empathy and connectedness with non-human beings and environments.

#article #post-tech #post-humanism #transhumanism

SPACE AND PLACE by yi-fu tuan

"Is a sense of distance and of space created out of the ability to hear? The world of sound would appear to be spatially structured, though not with the sharpness of the visual world. It is possible that the blind man who can hear but has no hands and can barely move lacks all sense of space; perhaps to such a person all sounds are bodily sensations and not cues to the character of an environment. Few people are so severely handicapped. Given sight and the power to move and handle things, sounds greatly enrich the human feeling for space. Human ears are not flexible, so they are less equipped to discern direction than, say, the ears of a wolf. But by turning the head a person can roughly tell the direction of sounds. People are subconsciously aware of the sources of noise, and from such awareness they construe auditory space.”

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capturing evocative sound effects worldwide

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Learn how to use a compressor. Discover the best plugin compressors for music production and post-production work.

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NEW VISUAL LANGUAGE?

https://www.pitchforkmusicfestival.de/en/

https://unsplash.com/s/photos/southbank-centre

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Many authors agree on the current relevance of brutalist web design, a trend inspired by the popular architectural style which, in turn, is distinguished by the rawness of its materials, the geometric shapes or the absence of decoration. This study uses Content Analysis to discover whether it is possible to interpret web-brutalism as a movement with distinctive features and, if this is found to be the case, to make a description of the term based on visual communication techniques as the main variable. After evaluating 50 websites from the catalogue of Brutalist Websites, the study concludes that the most recent meaning refers to a highly heterogeneous movement whose works, based mainly on visual tension, only share the attributes of provocation and creative freedom, which brings it closer to other contemporary trends in postmodern graphic design, such as New Ugly

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