Beyond unwanted sound : noise, affect and aesthetic moralism

This thesis uses Baruch Spinoza’s notion of affect to critically rethink the correlation between noise, ‘unwantedness’ and ‘badness’. Against subject-oriented definitions, which understand noise to be constituted by a listener; and object-oriented definitions, which define noise as a type of sound;...

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Main Author: Thompson, Marie Suzanne
Published: University of Newcastle upon Tyne 2014
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.632388