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"“This gripping and wide-ranging book explores how our efforts at communication with nonhumans tangle with complex questions of desire, affection, fear, and hope—all that lies beyond the domain of human reason. Eschewing the pastoral and accelerationist tendencies of posthumanism, Steingo’s method is focused squarely on the social injustices of modernity. His prose displays a restless critical mood that never fails to illuminate and provoke. An outstanding read.”  -- Michael Gallope, author of ""The Musician as Philosopher: New York’s Vernacular Avant-Garde, 1958-1978"" “Why is it that dreams of communication with animals, aliens, and other human adjacents invariably turn to music? Gavin Steingo has an answer, and it has all the charm and none of the flakiness that usually accompany such dreams. Witty, rational, and healthy-minded, he calls for both love and meaning. Humanity needs this book.” -- John Durham Peters, author of ""Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication"""

“This gripping and wide-ranging book explores how our efforts at communication with nonhumans tangle with complex questions of desire, affection, fear, and hope—all that lies beyond the domain of human reason. Eschewing the pastoral and accelerationist tendencies of posthumanism, Steingo’s method is focused squarely on the social injustices of modernity. His prose displays a restless critical mood that never fails to illuminate and provoke. An outstanding read.”  -- Michael Gallope, author of The Musician as Philosopher: New York’s Vernacular Avant-Garde, 1958-1978 “Why is it that dreams of communication with animals, aliens, and other human adjacents invariably turn to music? Gavin Steingo has an answer, and it has all the charm and none of the flakiness that usually accompany such dreams. Witty, rational, and healthy-minded, he calls for both love and meaning.  Humanity needs this book.” -- John Durham Peters, author of Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication

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Gavin Steingo is professor of music at Princeton University. He is the author of Kwaito’s Promise: Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa, published by the University of Chicago Press.  

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