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Phantasmic Radio Paperback - 1995

by Weiss, Allen S

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  • Title Phantasmic Radio
  • Author Weiss, Allen S
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 144
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press, Durham NC
  • Date 1995-09-07
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0822316641.G
  • ISBN 9780822316640 / 0822316641
  • Weight 0.44 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 5.05 x 0.41 in (22.86 x 12.83 x 1.04 cm)
  • Reading level 1500
  • Library of Congress subjects Radio and music, Music - Philosophy and aesthetics
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95-4120
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.44

From the publisher

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 voice.
Phantasmic Radio presents a new perspective on the avant-garde radio experiments of Antonin Artaud and John Cage, and brings to light fascinating, lesser-known work by, among others, Valre Novarina, Gregory Whitehead, and Christof Migone. Weiss shows how Artaud's "body without organs" establishes the closure of the flesh after the death of God; how Cage's "imaginary landscapes" proffer the indissociability of techne and psyche; how Novarina reinvents the body through the word in his "theater of the ears." Going beyond the art historical context of these experiments, Weiss describes how, with their emphasis on montage and networks of transmission, they marked out the coordinates of modernism and prefigured what we now recognize as the postmodern.

From the rear cover

""Phantasmic Radio" is a real pleasure to read, both for its elegant style and its originality."--Michael Hardt, Duke University

About the author

Allen S. Weiss is the author of several books, including The Aesthetics of Excess, Shattered Forms, Perverse Desire and the Ambiguous Icon, and Mirrors of Infinity.