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Book SynopsisThe 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. This book explores the meaning of radio to the modern imagination.
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Phantasmic Radio is a real pleasure to read, both for its elegant style and its originality."—Michael Hardt, Duke University
"Putting a stethoscope to the chest of mass-culture’s first darling medium, Alan Weiss draws radio art out of electomagnetic obscurity and onto the stage of current debates on subjectivity and technology, primitivism and vanguardism, psychology and textuality. Historically rich, astute, and argumentative,
Phantasmic Radio charts the theoretical flutters in the land of lost bodies and drifting signals. It attends to the jarring and brilliant broadcast of ideas as they dance across our eardrums."—John Corbett, author of
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