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72 Mobile Culture Studies. The Journal 3 2o17 Agata Stanisz | Tractor unit acoustemology cance of the sonic or olfactory one. The  visually established epistemology is insufficient and often misleading in its description and  interpretation of social worlds. Based on anthropology, especially with reference to its key method of participant observation, democratization of sen- ses undermines the  authoritarianism of an anthropologist, who has been, has seen, has taken notes and  has  interpreted. Sonic representations of cultures facilitate a more direct access to reality which earlier could only be described by an anthropologist. In this way, deep listening (Schafer 1977) can be treated as analogous to Geertz’s thick description (Geertz 1973, 3-30). The listening is neither easy nor obvious since it requires attuning one’s ears to listening to  nu- merous layers of meanings ascribed to sounds and is related to the practice of dialogue. In  the industrial and infrastructural contexts, this is like breaking through stereotypical listening: the not completely obvious hums and relativity of noise. Sound forces us to rethink the  meanings of the social experiencing of the world and affords us an opportunity to have an  insight into the relationality of experiences, into how we enter into relationships with other people and the spaces we inhabit. References: Altman, Irwin. 1976. ‘Privacy, A Conceptual Analysis’, Environment and Behavior, 8(1), 7-29 Atkinson, Rowland. 2007. ‘Ecology of Sound. The Sonic Order of Urban Space’, Urban Stud- ies, 44(10), 1905-1917 Atkinson, Rowland. 2011. ‘Ears Have walls. Thoughts on the Listening Body in Urban Space’, Aether, 7, 2-26 Augé, Marc. 1995. Non-places. Introduction to an anthropology of supermodernity (London-New York: Verso) Berendt, Joachim-Ernst. 1985. The third ear: On Listening to the World (New York: Henry Holt & Company) Bijsterveld, Karin. 2010. ‘Acoustic Cocooning How the Car became a Place to Unwind’, Senses & Society, 5(2), 189-211 Blacking, John.1973. How Musical is Man? (Seattle: University of Washington Press) Bull, Michael. 2003. ‘Soundscapes of the Car: A Critical Study of Automobile Habitation’, in Bull Michael and Les Back, eds., The Auditory Culture Reader (Oxford : Berg), 185-202 Bull, Michael. 2004. ‘Automobility and the Power of Sound’, Theory,Culture and Society, 2(4/5), 243-259 Bull, Michael. 2004. ‘Thinking about Sound, Proximity and Distance in Western Experience: The Case of Odysseus’s Walkman’, in Erlmann Veit, ed., Hearing Cultures: Essays on Sound, Listening and Modernity (Oxford and New York: Berg), 173-190 Cresswell, Tom and Peter Merriman. 2011. ‘Introduction: geographies of mobilities – practices, spaces, subjects’, in Cresswell, tom and Peter Merriam, eds., Geographies of mobilities – prac- tices, spaces, subjects ( London: Asegate), 7-9 Deleuze, Gilles. 2003. Francis Bacon. The logic of sensation (London: Continuum) DePillo, James J. and Stan Poduch 2005. True stories of driver turnover: translating the drivers perspective (New York: Delmar Cengage Learning)