Geosonics

Listening Through Earth's Soundscapes

Joshua Dittrich (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2026
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
9798765104569 (ISBN)

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How do we listen to the earth? That is the central question posed in Geosonics: Listening Through Earth's Soundscapes.

Working across sound studies, media theory, and environmental media studies, Joshua Dittrich explores the material and metaphorical geology of the sonic environment. In an epoch of climate crisis, environment is no longer a neutral background, site, or simple “surrounding”: environment is immanently implicated in the chains of mediation that make up the material and imaginative infrastructure of our lives. The analytical task of Geosonics is to tune into that infrastructure through sound. Drawing on influential work in sound studies around the concept of transduction, this book explores how listening does not take place in a pre-existing soundscape, but rather makes place by etching out a mediated, mutually constitutive set of relations between listeners, media, and environments.

Joshua Dittrich teaches creative non-fiction and media studies at the Institute for Communication, Culture, Information & Technology at the University of Toronto, Mississauga, Canada. He holds a PhD in German Studies from Cornell University, USA, and a PhD in Communication & Culture from York University, Canada. His work has appeared in journals such as Substance, Intermedialities, Ethnologies, and New German Critique, as well as the edited volume Utopia: The Avant-garde, Modernism and (Im)possible Life, part of the European Avant-Garde and Modernism Series.

Introduction
1. From Geosonics to Geosonicks
2. The Sound Beneath Our Feet: Earthquakes and Ear Quakes
3. A Planet Made of Beethoven: Audio-Stretching, Transductive Listening and 24/7 Aesthetics
4. Now You See It… : Hearing Colors and Picturing Soundscapes
5. Sound Asleep: Sleeping, Listening, and the Politics of Nonconscious Experience
6. Listening from Outer Space: Sun Ra’s Reverberant Geology
Afterword
Bibliography
Notes
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.3.2026
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Mechanik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Technik
ISBN-13	9798765104569 / 9798765104569
Zustand	Neuware