The ears have it: “Forget what you think you know about ours being a visual culture, in which sight is the privileged sense.
Two thoughtful new discussions of the culture of listening – of what our modern world sounds like, and what we listen for and hear – make a strong case for the primacy of ears. And each further suggests that our experience of our aural environment – in which sound, like light, heat, or water, can be turned on or off with the flick of a switch – is a hallmark of modernity.” Nando Times