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Whale Song

Margret Grebowicz

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English
Bloomsbury Publishing
07 September 2017
Series: Object Lessons
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

The sapiens of the sea, whales are the other most intelligent, social, and loquacious animals on Earth. So why do they seem to swim away, the more we chase after them in our efforts to communicate and connect? How does the meaning of their mesmerizing songs continue to elude us? Focused on the history of cetacean communication experiments, Margret Grebowicz's Whale Song is a speculative, playful meditation on serious environmental and social loss. Pondering the problems facing ocean ecosystems as well as the challenges to social life, intimacy, and connection in the digital age, Whale Song explores the collectivities of whales, humans, and whales and humans together.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

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Imprint:   Bloomsbury Publishing
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 165mm,  Width: 121mm, 
Weight:   145g
ISBN:   9781501329258
ISBN 10:   1501329251
Series:   Object Lessons
Pages:   152
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
1. Songs 2. Loneliness 3. Language 4. Interest 5. Charisma 6. Captivity 7. Noise 8. Waste 9. Music 10. Kissing Acknowledgments Notes Index

Margret Grebowicz is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Goucher College, USA. She is the author of The National Park to Come (2015), Why Internet Porn Matters (2013), and Beyond the Cyborg (2013, with Helen Merrick).

Reviews for Whale Song

Writing with the clarity and precision of a dolphin's clicks, Grebowicz covers the history of the sometimes-futile attempts by humans to communicate with whales, dolphins, and other ocean dwellers. Humans could learn much from the dispassionate language of these creatures, whose sonar and other forms of long-range sonic communication is, by necessity, without deceit. * Alvin Lucier, composer * Whale Song is just the music of the earth we need now. Margret Grebowicz is listening to our Terran cousins in the rising storm. * Donna Haraway, author of Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene *


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