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In 1916, the Scottish physician Daniel McKenzie wrote in his pamphlet The City of Din: A Tirade against Noise, ‘civilisation is noise. At least, modern civilisation is’. McKenzie was born in 1870 and it seemed to him that ‘the modern city is suffering from tinnitus, as incessant, as persistent, as distracting as that symptom can be at its worst’. In a nostalgic voice, he evoked the days of ‘exceeding quietness’ in pre-industrial Britain (McKenzie 52, 25). In his diagnosis of the acoustic pathology...
