Echo
Across Nature and Culture
$33.06
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
24 May 2022
Summary
An exploration of echo not as simple repetition but as an agent of creative possibilities.
In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Amit Pinchevski proposes that echo is not simple repetition and the reproduction of sameness but an agent of change and a source of creation and creativity. Pinchevski views echo as a medium, connecting and mediating across and between disparate domains. He reminds us that the mythological Echo, sentenced by Juno to repeat the last word…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262543408 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262543400 |
| Author: | Amit Pinchevski |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 24 May 2022 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 127mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series |
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Critics Review
“Amit Pinchevski’s Echo is a beautifully written, short, dense,and rich meditation on “echo,” less the acoustic phenomenon per sethan the way the notion has been appropriated in Western culture, latosensu, over centuries, and its relevance to communication scholars.Navigating through multiple times and fields, it is also a plea for aholistic approach, in times of hyperspecialization.” - International Journal of Communication
“Pinchevski dwells with increasing intention, detail, and focus upon the broader stakes of this study for scholars of sound, including the echo’s disclosure of the “other-oriented” nature of human hearing, the “relational subjectivity” of aurality, and forms of echo-adjacent sonic mediation that “cut deep into the nature of being.” - Sound Studies
“For such a compact book, ECHO offers a long read. It is bursting with ideas and references for sound studies scholars with a particular interest in literary studies as well as media and biology scholarship.” - Journal of Sonic Studies
About The Author
Amit Pinchevski
Amit Pinchevski is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of By Way of Interruption: Levinas and the Ethics of Communication and Transmitted Wounds: Media and the Mediation of Trauma.
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