[Linganth] Marina Peterson on Atmospheric Noise

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
This Monday, Marina Peterson discusses her book, Atmospheric Noise,
with Drew Kerr on the CaMP blog.

campanthropology.org

All the best,
Ilana

Press blurb: 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 that which is diffuse, indefinite, vague,
and unformed. In her account, the “atmospheric” encompasses the physicality
of the ephemeral, dynamic assemblages of matter as well as a logic of
indeterminacy. It is audible as well as visible, heard as much as breathed.
Peterson develops a theory of “indefinite urbanism” to refer to
marginalized spaces of the city where concrete meets sky, windows resonate
with the whine of departing planes, and endangered butterflies live under
flight paths. Offering a conceptualization of sound as immanent and
non-objectified, she demonstrates ways in which noise is central to how we
know, feel, and think atmospherically.
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