Phantasmic Radio

Name: Phantasmic Radio
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ISBN: 9780822316640

ISBN-10: 0822316641

ISBN-13: 9780822316640

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Authors: Allen S. Weiss

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The alienation of the self, the annihilation of the body, the fracturing, dispersal, and reconstruction of the disembodied voice: the themes of modernism, even of modern consciousness, occur as a matter of course in the phantasmic realm of radio. In this original work of cultural criticism, Allen S. Weiss explores the meaning of radio to the modern imagination. Weaving together cultural and technological history, aesthetic analysis, and epistemological reflection, his investigation reveals how radiophony transforms expression and, in doing so, calls into question assumptions about language and being, body and voicePhantasmic Radiopresents a new perspective on the avant-garde radio…

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List price: $24.95
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 9/7/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 5.91" wide x 9.84" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface: Radio Phantasms, Phantasmic Radio



From Schizophrenia to Schizophonica: Antonin Artaud's To Have Done with the Judgment of God



The Radio as Musical Instrument: John Cage's Imaginary Landscapes



Mouths of Disquietude, Language in Mutation: Valere Novarina's Theater of the Ears



Lost Tongues and Disarticulated Voices: Gregory Whitehead's Pressures of the Unspeakable


Postface: Radio Solipsism


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