Radio : Essays in Bad Reception / John Mowitt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mowitt, John, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radio broadcasting--Philosophy.

Radio broadcasting.

Local Subjects:

Radio broadcasting--Philosophy.

Radio broadcasting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a wide-ranging, cross-cultural, and transhistorical assessment, John Mowitt examines radio's central place in the history of twentieth-century critical theory. A communication apparatus that was a founding technology of twentieth-century mass culture, radio drew the attention of theoretical and philosophical writers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Lacan, and Frantz Fanon, who used it as a means to disseminate their ideas. For others, such as Martin Heidegger, Theodor Adorno, and Raymond Williams, radio served as an object of urgent reflection. Mowitt considers how the radio came to matter, especially politically, to phenomenology, existentialism, Hegelian Marxism, anticolonialism, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies. The first systematic examination of the relationship between philosophy and radio, this provocative work also offers a fresh perspective on the role this technology plays today.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Object of Radio Studies

Chapter 1. Facing the Radio

Chapter 2. On the Air

Chapter 3. Stations of Exception

Chapter 4. Phoning In Analysis

Chapter 5. Birmingham Calling

Chapter 6. "We Are the Word"?

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786613520524

9781280099717

1280099712

9780520950078

0520950070

OCLC:

774272249