Decomposed - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Decomposed write by Kyle Devine. This book was released on 2019-10-15. Decomposed available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The hidden material histories of music. Music is seen as the most immaterial of the arts, and recorded music as a progress of dematerialization—an evolution from physical discs to invisible digits. In Decomposed, Kyle Devine offers another perspective. He shows that recorded music has always been a significant exploiter of both natural and human resources, and that its reliance on these resources is more problematic today than ever before. Devine uncovers the hidden history of recorded music—what recordings are made of and what happens to them when they are disposed of. Devine's story focuses on three forms of materiality. Before 1950, 78 rpm records were made of shellac, a bug-based resin. Between 1950 and 2000, formats such as LPs, cassettes, and CDs were all made of petroleum-based plastic. Today, recordings exist as data-based audio files. Devine describes the people who harvest and process these materials, from women and children in the Global South to scientists and industrialists in the Global North. He reminds us that vinyl records are oil products, and that the so-called vinyl revival is part of petrocapitalism. The supposed immateriality of music as data is belied by the energy required to power the internet and the devices required to access music online. We tend to think of the recordings we buy as finished products. Devine offers an essential backstory. He reveals how a range of apparently peripheral people and processes are actually central to what music is, how it works, and why it matters.
Biology of Plant Litter Decomposition V2
Biology of Plant Litter Decomposition V2 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Biology of Plant Litter Decomposition V2 write by C.H. Dickinson. This book was released on 2012-12-02. Biology of Plant Litter Decomposition V2 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Biology of Plant Litter Decomposition, Volume II is organized into two parts. The first part focuses on the organisms involved in plant litter decomposition, particularly, their structure and function. The second part deals with the environmental conditions under which breakdown occurs over the whole global surface. This volume separately considers terrestrial, freshwater, and marine environments. Furthermore, it describes two anthropocentric aspects: agriculture, with an emphasis on the importance of the saprophytic activity of plant pathogenic fungi, and the increasingly important composting of urban waste. This book will be invaluable to science students and instructors, as well as to biologists, botanists, marine ecologists.
Principles of Food Analysis for Filth, Decomposition, and Foreign Matter
Principles of Food Analysis for Filth, Decomposition, and Foreign Matter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Principles of Food Analysis for Filth, Decomposition, and Foreign Matter write by John Richard Gorham. This book was released on 1981. Principles of Food Analysis for Filth, Decomposition, and Foreign Matter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Vital Decomposition
Vital Decomposition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Vital Decomposition write by Kristina M. Lyons. This book was released on 2020-04-17. Vital Decomposition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Colombia, decades of social and armed conflict and the US-led war on drugs have created a seemingly untenable situation for scientists and rural communities as they attempt to care for forests and grow non-illicit crops. In Vital Decomposition Kristina M. Lyons presents an ethnography of human-soil relations. She follows state soil scientists and peasants across labs, greenhouses, forests, and farms and attends to the struggles and collaborations between farmers, agrarian movements, state officials, and scientists over the meanings of peace, productivity, rural development, and sustainability in Colombia. In particular, Lyons examines the practices and philosophies of rural farmers who value the decomposing layers of leaves, which make the soils that sustain life in the Amazon, and shows how the study and stewardship of the soil point to alternative frameworks for living and dying. In outlining the life-making processes that compose and decompose into soil, Lyons theorizes how life can thrive in the face of the violence, criminalization, and poisoning produced by militarized, growth-oriented development.
Bulletin
Bulletin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bulletin write by Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey. This book was released on 1924. Bulletin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
