{"id":2810,"date":"2017-08-18T16:07:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T20:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=2810"},"modified":"2017-09-25T16:31:07","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T20:31:07","slug":"the-analog-age","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/event\/the-analog-age\/","title":{"rendered":"The Analog Age*"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Analog Age<\/strong><\/p>\n A day and a half of events considering the shift from analog to digital in advance of Digital Humanities Week with special guest Damon Krukowski<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Author and\u00a0podcast<\/a>\u00a0host Damon Krukowski will be on campus for a series of events sponsored by the McGillicuddy Humanities Center in collaboration with The Department of English.\u00a0On Thursday<\/span>\u00a0at\u00a04:30<\/span>\u00a0he\u2019ll discuss\u00a0The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World<\/a>\u00a0with MHC director Jennifer Moxley in an event that is free and open to the public (Stewart Commons 104). Krukowski will also be visiting CMJ 237: Journalism Across Platforms\u00a0on Thursday<\/span>\u00a0and ENG 408: Advanced Poetry Workshop\u00a0on Friday<\/span>. A catered lunch in the Wicks Room is scheduled for\u00a0Friday<\/span>\u00a0from noon to 2pm; the topic of discussion is \u201cNegative Capabilities, Cage, noise and poetry.\u201d If you\u2019re interested in attending the lunch-time discussion please RSVP to english.chair@maine.edu<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Wednesday (Septemeber 27th)<\/span>\u00a0at\u00a04:30pm<\/span>.<\/p>\n Damon Krukowski: <\/strong><\/p>\n Recording technologies can become outdated or obsolescent, but does sound itself have an age? If so, what does it sound like<\/em>? How do we hear \u201cage\u201d in the temporal medium of sound recording? We may assume that the \u201cAnalog Age\u201d is gone for good, replaced by the \u201cDigital Age,\u201d but in his new book The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World<\/a>, <\/em>and podcast Ways of Hearing <\/em>hosted by Radiotopia author and musician Damon Krukowski takes this assumption back to basics to build a thought-provoking argument asserting the necessity of \u201cnoise.\u201d Krukowski helps us understand how recording technologies can have a huge impact on we are and are not<\/em> hearing in our world.<\/p>\n Damon Krukowski is the author of The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in the Digital World, <\/em>which Alex Ross called \u201ca radical defense of analog craft in the face of the digital hard sell.\u201d The Kirkus Review<\/em> said that \u201cKrukowski turns the basic dichotomy of audio engineering, the ratio of signal to noise, into a complex metaphor for the loss of history and ingenuity represented by the replacement of analog recording and culture with digital media.\u201d Krukowski\u2019s six-part podcast, Ways of Hearing, <\/em>went live on Radiotopia\u2019s Showcase on August 4. Krukowski was in the indie rock band Galaxie 500 and is currently one half of the folk-rock duo Damon & Naomi. He has written for Pitchfork<\/em>, Artforum<\/em>, Bookforum<\/em>, Frieze<\/em>, The Wire<\/em>, and on his blog\u00a0International Sad Hits<\/em>. In addition, he has published two books of prose poetry and serves as co-publisher of the literary press Exact Change.<\/p>\n Schedule: 4:30-6PM A discussion between Jennifer Moxley (MHC Director) and Damon Krukowski on his book\u00a0The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World<\/em>.\u00a0 This event is free and open to the public.\u00a0Stewart Commons 104.<\/p>\n Friday\u00a0September 29<\/strong>:<\/p>\n 12-2PM: Loose round table discussion: Negative Capabilities, Cage, noise and poetry. Catered lunch in Wicks Room,\u00a0please RSVP to\u00a0english.chair@maine.edu<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Wednesday (Septemeber 27th)<\/span>\u00a0at\u00a04:30pm if you want to attend.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Analog Age A day and a half of events considering the shift from analog to digital in advance of Digital Humanities Week with special guest Damon Krukowski Author and\u00a0podcast\u00a0host […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":893,"featured_media":3209,"template":"","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[38,45,28],"class_list":["post-2810","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-communication-and-journalism","tribe_events_cat-juvenescenceobsolescence-humanities-symposium","tribe_events_cat-public-humanities","cat_communication-and-journalism","cat_juvenescenceobsolescence-humanities-symposium","cat_public-humanities"],"yoast_head":"\n
\n<\/strong>Thursday September 28<\/strong>:<\/p>\n
<\/a>The Analog Age<\/strong> is sponsored by the Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center and the Department of English and is part of the 2017-2018 year-long symposium: Juvenescence\/Obsolescence: Humanities Approaches to Aging\u00a0across the Ages<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"