Mack Hagood

@mactra.bsky.social

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Sound scholar. Author. Subscribe to Phantom Power, a podcast + newsletter about sound at mackhagood.com.

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Publishers Marketplace announcement: "Miami University professor of media and communications and author of HUSH Mack Hagood‘s THE END OF LISTENING: WHAT WE LOSE WHEN WE CANCEL NOISE, about the unintended consequences of the rise of "the orphic industries"—from white noise machines and noise-canceling headphones to nature sound apps and in-ear, AI-driven "hearables"—whose stories raise urgent ethical, political, and societal questions, not the least of which is whether the very technologies we rely on to help control our stress-inducing environments might be eroding our emotional resilience and connection to society, to Penguin Press, at auction."
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