Sound Research WIKINDX
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| Ihde, D. (2007). Listening and voice: Phenomenologies of sound. 2nd ed. Albany (NY): State University of New York Press. (Original work published 1976). |
  
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| Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard Last edited by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard 12/12/2023, 15:38 | |
| In describing visual depth and horizonal perspective, Ihde says the latter has "a constant ratio of present to hidden, of visible to invisible" and that, auditorily, "this hidden depth is silence" | |
| "My "self" is a correlate of the World, and its way of being-in that World is a way filled with voice and language. | |
| "Ligeti's early cut-and-paste synthesized music was incorporated into Stanley Kubrick's famous movies"! | |
| "Presence is situated within its horizons" | |
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"[A]s a presence [...] the sound whiles away in the temporal presencing that is essential to it."
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| In Heideggerian terms, Ihde describes the auditory horizon as the point at which sounds are given over into the present. Sound is a giving and listening is what "lets come into presence the unbidden giving of sound." | |
| "To name the horizon in relation to the visual field is to name the World [...] With the auditory turn, however, the horizon does not show even such vague spatial significations except as thresholds of hearing." | |
| While the visual field has a gemometrical shape that is spherical-like, the auditory field and its horizon are discernable only temporally. | |
| What is present, our central focus on our self, is always inside or contained within horizons. | |
| Ihde, D. (2010). Embodied technics. Automatic Press / VIP. |
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| Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard Last edited by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard 16/05/2026, 07:33 | |
| "To recognize that directed, intentional human experience can embody a technology is a first step towards a postphenomenology in that a material artifact can be taken into first person experience" | |
| Technological mediation: "every change in our newly magnified world is also a change in our embodied experience" | |
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Ihde uses the example of the telescope for postphenomenology: "The telescope [...] is taken into my now extended and mediated bodily experience: (Human-instrument) > World phenomena" |
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| Ihde explains "old fashioned" phenomenology as "a whole body experience of my immediate environment." | |
| Repeats the myth that the English longbow overcame the French crossbow at Agincourt. Most historians as well as the contemporary commentators agree that the French crossbowmen were not brought into play during the battle. | |
| Notes that a 45,000 BC "bear bone flute" was found in Slovenia. Probably a flute and probably Neanderthal, it had 4 holes tuned in the diatonic scale. | |
| Ihde, D. (2009). Postphenomenology and Technoscience: The Peking University Lectures. State University of New York Press. |
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| Added by: alexb44 Last edited by: alexb44 12/05/2026, 04:51 | |
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"It [new tech to interrogate radiation (or generally nondirectly perceivable phenomena)] is no longer analog—except through technologically constructed translations. But I argue that it remains “realist” if by this is meant that a sensor device only operates if it actually detects some emission, but at the same time it is both a constructed and an intervening process that is deliberate and designed. It brings into presence previously unknown phenomena, but it does so by what I have called a hermeneutic process, by translating what is detected into images that can be seen and read by embodied observers. The embodiment of observers is thus an invariant in science."
[...] "In astronomy, these may be thought of as instrumental embodiments. Human perception is transformed in each new technological development, situated and placed differently, but implied by each technological context." |
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| "With modern astronomy, beginning with the seventeenth century, there occurred a technoscientific revolution, one embedded in the invention of lens optics. Here the variables change. There is a qualitative change, in that human vision becomes “eyeball-plus-optics,” which transforms the phenomenological space-time of observation through magnification and other optical effects. Now what was previously unseeable with the naked eye becomes visible through mediating lenses. But it remains isomorphic with eyeball vision, to the extent that it is what one would see if one were literally spatially placed at the apparent distance that the lens focus allows. It remains strictly analog in that it is what would be seen if the viewer were literally in the position that the lens phenomenologically yields." | |
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On tools (in reference to Heidegger)
"The “praxical” “knowledge” that Heidegger attributes to the manipulation of tools, equipment, is not “cognitive” but tacit—and, I would say, bodily." |
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On perceiving phenomena through technological transformation - phenomenological hermeneutics
"I argue that we are not now in the realm of the “posthuman,” as some have proclaimed. Rather, we now have, with the new imaging, a different kind of human-technology-knowledge relation, a relation that I term embodied hermeneutic." [...] "What I am calling translation is a technological transformation of a phenomenon into a readable image. This is one analog to a hermeneutic process, except in this case it is a material hermeneutic process, not one limited to textual or linguistic phenomena. Second, because it is perceivable—usually in science’s favored visualist modes—it also is available to the gestalt capacities of human vision, which can “see at a glance” the patterns displayed. In this sense, it is a phenomenological hermeneutic. So rather than leaving embodiment, the new imaging produces for embodied observers a new way of bringing close something that is both spatially and perceptually “distant.” COMMENT: Not in "posthuman" era. It's simply a different type of human-tech-knowledge relation - the embodied hermeneutic. Phenomenological hermeneutic is when a technological transformation (a translation) of a phenomenon is made into a readable (perceivable) image. Analog to hermeneutic process but material, so not just text or lingustic. As such it's available to the gestalt capacities of human vision. E.g. seeing your unborn child through an ultrascound scan . |
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| "[...] science cannot escape the lifeworld, since it too must make all of its measurements perceivable to embodied humans, although it may do so through the mediations of measuring technologies or instruments." |