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Freakonomics Radio
It was mentioned as a book about media and sonic self-control, and that sound has always been a challenge to our sense of autonomy.
Sound has always been a challenge to our sense of autonomy.
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It was mentioned as a book about media and sonic self-control, and that sound has always been a challenge to our sense of autonomy.
Sound has always been a challenge to our sense of autonomy.
Fighting sound with sound is what I see people doing with these different kinds of technologies. Sort of pacifying the space around them in order to maintain their own control of their own attention and their own state of mind.
Have we fallen into certain patterns where we're so used to controlling the sounds around us that we don't think to take off the headphones?
And this is the real problem is there can never be enough control.