The future of post-human acoustics : a preface to a new theory of sound and silence / Peter Baofu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baofu, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sound.

Silence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (480 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Cambridge International Science Pub., 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides an alternative (better) way to understand the future of acoustics, especially in the dialectic context of sound and silence while learning from different approaches in the literature but without favoring any one of them (nor integrating them, since they are not necessarily compatible with each other). In other words, this book offers a new theory (that is, the multilateral theory of acoustics) to go beyond the existing approaches in the literature on acoustics in an original way."

Contents:

The Future ofPost-Human Acoustics

The Future of Post-Human Acoustics. A Preface to a New Theoryof Sound and Silence

CONTENTS

Part One: Introduction

Part Two: Sound

Part Three: Silence

Part Four: Conclusion

TABLES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

PART ONE Introduction

CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION - THE IMPORTANCE OF ACOUSTICS

The Questionability of a Conventional Wisdom

Acoustics in Relation to Sound and Silence

Sound

Silence

The Diverse Sub-Fields of Acoustics

The Theoretical Debate

The Mental Argument

The Natural Argument

The Societal Argument

The Cultural Argument

The Multilateral Argument

The Multilateral Theory of Acoustics

Theory and Meta-Theory

The Classification of Theory and Meta-Theory

A Unified Theory of Everything

The Logic of Existential Dialectics

The Conception of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontics)

The Syntax of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontomethodologyand Ontologic)

The Semantics of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontosemantics)

The Pragmatics of Existential Dialectics (or ItsOntopragmatics)

Sophisticated Methodological Holism

Chapter Outline

Some Clarifications

In Conversation with My Previous Books

Case Studies and Examples

Detailed Analysis versus Overall Synthesis

Two Distinctive Features of Using Quotations

The Use of !eologisms

PART TWO Sound

CHAPTER 2. SOUND AND ITS DOUBLENESS

The Orderliness of Sound

Sound and the Mind

Sound, Perception Limits, and the Psychoacoustic Model

Sound, Noise Sensibility, and Extroversion-Introversion

Sound and Nature

Sound, Animals, and Survival

Sound, Earthquakes, and Seismology

Sound and Society

Sound, Underwater Acoustics, and Naval Warfare

Sound, Small Talk, and Social Skills

Sound and Culture.

Sound, Harmonic Series, and Musical Culture

Sound, and Noise Aesthetics

The Disturbance of Sound

PART THREE Silence

CHAPTER 3. SILENCE AND ITS DUALITY

The Serenity of Silence

Silence and the Mind

Silence, Deafness, and the Mask of Benevolence

Silence, Stuttering, and Speech Disorder

Silence and Nature

Silence, Infrasound, Animals, and Ghosts

Silence and Society

Silence, Noise-Control, and Architectural Acoustics

Silence, the Right to Quiet Enjoyment, and the Law

Silence and Culture

Silence, Contemplation, and Religion

Silence, Abduction, and the Rhetorical Device in Debate

The Turmoil of Silence

PART FOUR Conclusion

CHAPTER 4. CONCLUSION - THE FUTURE OF ACOUSTICS

Beyond Sound and Silence

1st Thesis: The Absoluteness-Relativeness Principle

2nd Thesis: The Predictability-Unpredictability Principle

3rd Thesis: The Explicability-Inexplicability Principle

4th Thesis: The Preciseness-Vagueness Principle

5th Thesis: The Simpleness-Complicatedness Principle

6th Thesis: The Openness-Hiddenness Principle

7th Thesis: The Denseness-Emptiness Principle

8th Thesis: The Slowness-Quickness Principle

9th Thesis: The Expansion-Contraction Principle

10th Thesis: The Theory-Praxis Principle

11th Thesis: The Convention-3ovelty Principle

12th Thesis: The Evolution-TransformationPrinciple

13th Thesis: The Symmetry-Asymmetry Principle

14th Thesis: The Softness-Hardness Principle

15th Thesis: The Regression-Progression Principle

16th Thesis: The Same-Difference Principle

17th Thesis: The Post-Human Creativeness

Towards the Post-Human Creativeness

Five Great Future Transformations of Acoustics

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-01227-8

9786613012272

1-907343-43-1

OCLC:

711151866