Atmospheric Noise: The Indefinite Urbanism of Los Angeles

by Marina Peterson

Book Overview

In Atmospheric Noise, Marina Peterson traces entanglements of environmental noise, atmosphere, sense, and matter that cohere in and through encounters with airport noise since the 1960s. Exploring spaces shaped by noise around Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), she shows how noise is a way of attuning toward the atmospheric: through noise we learn to listen to the sky and imagine the permeability of bodies and matter, sensing and conceiving...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478011823
• ISBN13: 9781478011828
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"