The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want: A Book About Noise
Autor Garret Keizeren Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 mar 2012
Noise
is
usually
defined
as
unwanted
sound:
loud
music
from
a
neighbor,
the
honk
of
a
taxicab,
the
roar
of
a
supersonic
jet.
But
as
Garret
Keizer
illustrates
in
this
probing
examination,
noise
is
as
much
about
what
we
want
as
about
what
we
seek
to
avoid.
In
a
journey
that
leads
us
from
the
primeval
Tanzanian
veldt
to
wind
farms
in
Maine,
Keizer
invites
us
to
listen
to
noise
in
history,
in
popular
culture,
and
not
least
of
all
in
our
own
backyards.
He
follows
noise
throughout
history
and
across
the
globe.
He
considers
what
it
has
to
tell
us
about
today's
most
pressing
issues,
from
social
inequality
to
climate
change.
The
result
is
guaranteed
to
change
how
we
hear
the
world,
and
how
we
measure
our
own
personal
volume
within
it.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781610391108
ISBN-10: 1610391101
Pagini: 400
Ilustrații: none
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: PublicAffairs
Colecția PublicAffairs
ISBN-10: 1610391101
Pagini: 400
Ilustrații: none
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: PublicAffairs
Colecția PublicAffairs
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Notă biografică
Garret
Keizeris
a
contributing
editor
toHarper's
Magazine,
a
recent
Guggenheim
Fellow,
and
the
author
of
five
acclaimed
books.
His
essays
and
poems
have
appeared
inThe
Los
Angeles
Times,Mother
Jones,The
New
Yorker,Smithsonian.org,
andThe
Village
Voice.
He
lives
with
his
wife
in
northeastern
Vermont.
Recenzii
“Every
man,
woman,
and
child
who
has
recoiled
from
the
obscenity
of
intrusive
noise
should
read
this
book.
Keizer,
whose
disputatious
moral
eloquence
places
him
in
the
line
of
Sinclair
and
Steinbeck,
shows
us
that
noise
is
far
from
being
but
one
more
irritant
of
modern
life.
It
is
a
symptom
of
deeper
threats
to
a
healthy
society:
amoral
power,
a
degraded
political
system,
a
collapse
of
spiritual
consciousness.
This
is
a
masterpiece
of
social
reportage
and—wondrously,
given
all
its
burning
indictments—of
decency
and
affirmation.”
Booklist
“This engaging book explores the unforeseen (and sometimes unwanted) side effects of our inventive natures…. An enlightening look at an issue most of us ignore.”
Financial Times, June 5, 2010
“In this witty and informative social history, Garret Keizer employs a study of noise to interpret and illuminate a range of global issues, from racial injustice and climate change to imperialism and torture methods.”
Nature, May 2010
“Keizer is an energetic researcher and an omnivorous writer…. [He] comes across not as a dour partisan for silence but as someone who sees the right to quiet as one of many competing rights. It is a virtue of his ruminative study that it conveys the charm of a hushed library and the appeal of the ruckus outside.”
Cleveland Plain Dealer, May 10, 2010
“Keizer zaps our assumptions at a merry frequency in his remarkable, thought-provoking new work,The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want. It is pointed, often exhilarating, and as tightly written as the skin on a drum…. Viewed through Keizer's political lens, it is no accident that prisons are relentlessly noisy, that the poor live in the most degraded soundscapes, that the disabled, the very young and the very old are disproportionately vulnerable to noise…. Keizer writes incisively about ‘the magnificent custom bikes' assembled yearly in Sturgis, S.D., for the ‘World's Largest Motorcycle Rally' and, a few pages later, the prayer gathering by Lakota trying to protect Mato Paha, or Bear Butte, S.D., from the encroaching biker rally. Keizer lets us hear the grinding of power, yes, but also the poetry of humans seeking to be heard, including our need for quiet.”
New York Times, May 18, 2010
“Shrewd…. As the effortlessly intelligent Mr. Keizer points out, noise is among the thorniest class issues of our time, and we tend to utterly ignore its meanings…. Mr. Keizer's book is rowdy and yet … subtle. It explores the social aspects of noise in our lives, and every page is packed with crackling observations. Mr. Keizer is not antinoise. Without it, the world would lack many beautiful things — not just the music of the Rolling Stones but also certain side benefits, he writes, like ‘Keith Richards's incomparable smile.'”
New York Times Book Review, May 30, 2010
“[Keizer] has really wrestled with the noise question and comes away with the most to say.... What kept me engaged in Keizer's book was a succession of unexpected ideas about the links between noise, politics and technology."
The Guardian, June 26, 2010
"[A] thoughtfully soft-spoken and beautifully written polemic... To be read with Rage Against the Machine cranked up, but not too far, on headphones."
Religion Dispatches, July 9, 2010
"Garret Keizer, best known for the powerful essays he contributes to Harper's, is a passionate and pugnacious thinker with a strong aversion to concealment and cant."
Booklist
“This engaging book explores the unforeseen (and sometimes unwanted) side effects of our inventive natures…. An enlightening look at an issue most of us ignore.”
Financial Times, June 5, 2010
“In this witty and informative social history, Garret Keizer employs a study of noise to interpret and illuminate a range of global issues, from racial injustice and climate change to imperialism and torture methods.”
Nature, May 2010
“Keizer is an energetic researcher and an omnivorous writer…. [He] comes across not as a dour partisan for silence but as someone who sees the right to quiet as one of many competing rights. It is a virtue of his ruminative study that it conveys the charm of a hushed library and the appeal of the ruckus outside.”
Cleveland Plain Dealer, May 10, 2010
“Keizer zaps our assumptions at a merry frequency in his remarkable, thought-provoking new work,The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want. It is pointed, often exhilarating, and as tightly written as the skin on a drum…. Viewed through Keizer's political lens, it is no accident that prisons are relentlessly noisy, that the poor live in the most degraded soundscapes, that the disabled, the very young and the very old are disproportionately vulnerable to noise…. Keizer writes incisively about ‘the magnificent custom bikes' assembled yearly in Sturgis, S.D., for the ‘World's Largest Motorcycle Rally' and, a few pages later, the prayer gathering by Lakota trying to protect Mato Paha, or Bear Butte, S.D., from the encroaching biker rally. Keizer lets us hear the grinding of power, yes, but also the poetry of humans seeking to be heard, including our need for quiet.”
New York Times, May 18, 2010
“Shrewd…. As the effortlessly intelligent Mr. Keizer points out, noise is among the thorniest class issues of our time, and we tend to utterly ignore its meanings…. Mr. Keizer's book is rowdy and yet … subtle. It explores the social aspects of noise in our lives, and every page is packed with crackling observations. Mr. Keizer is not antinoise. Without it, the world would lack many beautiful things — not just the music of the Rolling Stones but also certain side benefits, he writes, like ‘Keith Richards's incomparable smile.'”
New York Times Book Review, May 30, 2010
“[Keizer] has really wrestled with the noise question and comes away with the most to say.... What kept me engaged in Keizer's book was a succession of unexpected ideas about the links between noise, politics and technology."
The Guardian, June 26, 2010
"[A] thoughtfully soft-spoken and beautifully written polemic... To be read with Rage Against the Machine cranked up, but not too far, on headphones."
Religion Dispatches, July 9, 2010
"Garret Keizer, best known for the powerful essays he contributes to Harper's, is a passionate and pugnacious thinker with a strong aversion to concealment and cant."
Bill
McKibben
“Garret Keizer has, not for the first time, helped us look hard at something we thought we understood and see that instead it's rich, fascinating, full of political and moral and human implications. I'd say that his argument goes off like an intellectual explosion, but perhaps better in this context to summon the image of a bell, struck once in the silence. This is a book for our precise moment on earth.”
Naomi Klein, author ofThe Shock Doctrine
“Very few writers combine thoughtfulness and rage as satisfyingly as Garret Keizer. As promised, this is not just a book about noise; it is a profound meditation on power—its painful absence and its flagrant abuse. You won't be able to hear car alarms in quite the same way again.”
Ron Powers, author ofMark Twain: A Lifeand co-author ofFlags of Our Fathers
“Garret Keizer has, not for the first time, helped us look hard at something we thought we understood and see that instead it's rich, fascinating, full of political and moral and human implications. I'd say that his argument goes off like an intellectual explosion, but perhaps better in this context to summon the image of a bell, struck once in the silence. This is a book for our precise moment on earth.”
Naomi Klein, author ofThe Shock Doctrine
“Very few writers combine thoughtfulness and rage as satisfyingly as Garret Keizer. As promised, this is not just a book about noise; it is a profound meditation on power—its painful absence and its flagrant abuse. You won't be able to hear car alarms in quite the same way again.”
Ron Powers, author ofMark Twain: A Lifeand co-author ofFlags of Our Fathers