Description: Uses the whale song to explore how environmental problems like noise pollution and climate change affect social relations between animals as well as humans.
Brief description: Ian Bogost is an author and an award-winning game designer. He is Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences, Director of Film & Media Studies, and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. Bogost is also Founding Partner at Persuasive Games LLC, an independent game studio, and a Contributing Editor at The Atlantic. Bogost is author or co-author of ten books, including Alien Phenomenology (2012)and Play Anything (2016).
Review Quotes:
"Enchanting ... Beautifully written and often deeply moving, Whale Song is more than a fascinating examination of ocean life - it's a balm for the soul ... This slim but enthralling work of nonfiction explores what whale song has meant to humans since our first recording of it." --Shelf Awareness
"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