Posts tagged with ‘radio’

  • Mind and Philosophy
    10 min

    Acoustic Cyberspace

    Marshall McLuhan and the "space" in cyber-

    Marshall McLuhan and the "space" in cyber-

    Though sound and music are essentially incorporeal aspects of human experience, they are dependent on the latent potentials of matter: bamboo tubes, stretched animal skin, throat-flesh. Even more fundamentally, sound rests upon vibration, the analog fluctuations of that vaporous fluid we call air. But in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, that ocean of vibration became electrified. Just as traditional instruments can be seen as alchemical transformations of earth and air, woods and metals, so can the revolutionary sonic...

  • Technoculture
    10 min

    Electricity, Magnets, and Vibes

    The Electromagnetic Imaginary

    The Electromagnetic Imaginary

    Though sound and music are essentially incorporeal aspects of human experience, they are dependent on the latent potentials of matter: bamboo tubes, stretched animal skin, throat-flesh. Even more fundamentally, sound rests upon vibration, the analog fluctuations of that vaporous fluid we call air. But in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, that ocean of vibration became electrified. Just as traditional instruments can be seen as alchemical transformations of earth and air, woods and metals, so can the revolutionary sonic...

  • Religions and Spirits
    6 min

    Televangelists Tune Into the End

    National Religious Broadcasters convention during the first Gulf War

    National Religious Broadcasters convention during the first Gulf War

    Though sound and music are essentially incorporeal aspects of human experience, they are dependent on the latent potentials of matter: bamboo tubes, stretched animal skin, throat-flesh. Even more fundamentally, sound rests upon vibration, the analog fluctuations of that vaporous fluid we call air. But in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, that ocean of vibration became electrified. Just as traditional instruments can be seen as alchemical transformations of earth and air, woods and metals, so can the revolutionary sonic...