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Noyes

I'm not sure if these are two different authors, and didn't read with the intent to figure that out.... hmm...
Anyway, I found the findings in these reading pretty typical in terms of cultural practices of defining normal and deviant. The maligning of the actual heritage of Savoyards and describing barbarous hordes of machines descending like the Vandals upon the pastoral idyll of the past pretty much sums up the way society reveals it's contempt of certain groups while trying to craft rhetoric completely unrelated arguments, in this case about sound and the nobility of silence and it's place a value of the educated and civilized.

Adding in the effects of reification creating what amount to negative stereotypes and problematic discursive formations and the resulting conflations of the reality of a sound's source with all that is reviled within a society embodied in the other leads to a situation only compounded when the word noise is linked to unwanted sound by technicians.

Noise is dirty diseased immigrants signifying a problem in the physical make up of the societal machine that should be fixed...

Air tight reasoning....

Oh, this is about noise pollution?

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