Jonathan Sterne teaches in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies and the History and Philosophy of Science Program at McGill University. He is author of The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (2003), MP3: The Meaning of a Format (2012); and numerous articles on media, technologies and the politics of culture. He also makes sound. Visit his website at http: [...]

1. Sonic Imaginations Part 1: Hearing, Listening, Deafness 2. The Auditory Dimension 3. Noise: The Political Economy of Music 4. Contradicting Media: Toward a Political Phenomenology of Listening 5. The Three Listening Modes 6. Cassette Sermons, Aural Modernities and the Islamic Revival in Cairo 7. The Ontology of Vibrational Force 8. Hearing Aids and the History of Electronics Miniaturization 9. Following You: Disciplines of Listening in Social Media Part 2: Spaces, Sites, -Scapes 10. The Soundscape 11. The Walkman Effect 12. Sound, Modernity and History 13. No Corner for the Devil to Hide 14. The Soundproof Study 15. Listening to Machines: Industrial Noise, Hearing Loss and the Cultural Meaning of Sound 16. Anthropologist Underwater: Immersive Soundscapes, Submarine Cyborgs and Transductive Ethnography 17. Auditory Awareness as an Extension of Religion 18. The Audio-Visual iPod Part 3: Transduce and Record 19. The Sound of Music in the Era of Its Electronic Reproducibility 20. Four and a Half Film Fallacies 21. Gramophone 22. Fidelity Versus Intelligibility 23. Shaping the Synthesizer 24. The Recording Studio as Fetish 25. New Media Publics 26. Deadness: Technologies of the Intermundane Part 4: Collectivities and Couplings 27. This is the Voice of Algeria 28. The Culture of the Telephone 29. Radiating Culture 30. Reach Out Someone: the Telephonic Uncanny 31. Cellular Disability: Consumption, Design and Access 32. Social Transculturation, Epistemologies of Purification and the Aural Public Sphere in Latin America Part 5: The Sonic Arts: Aesthetics, Experience, Interpretation 33. Desire, Power and the Sonorous Landscape 34. Science, Technology and the Avant-Garde 35. Noises of the Avant-Garde 36. Operating System for the Redesign of Sonic Reality 37. Starship Africa 38. Auditory Relations 39. Toward a Feminist Historiography of Electronic Music Part 6: Voices 40. The Voice the Keeps Silence 41. The Grain of the Voice 42. "Feenin": Posthuman Voices in Contemporary Black Popular Music 43. Multiple Voices 44. The Frenzy of the Audible: Pleasure, Authenticity and Recorded Laughter 45. The Linguistics of the Voice