... the influence of how radio technology and mediated talk on local ways of perceiving modernity. To support this argument, the chapter describes nouns and verbs for radio broadcasting from the Bemba language of Zambia. It shows how different orders of linguistic data, such as nicknames for radio personalities...

... on East the Failure German Kehre die the Turning West the digital philosophy posthumous hermeneutics radio technology planetary idiotism Heidegger philology In a world of Heidegger studies so becalmed that the Heidegger Circle in the United States, the same Circle to which Heidegger addressed one...

...This introductory chapter discusses how the police made use of radio technology in response to the increasing crime numbers as a result of automobile exploitation. Literary sources from the 1930s suggest that police radio represents speed, efficiency, excitement, geographical command, two-way...

...—artist management, coalitions of managements, radio technology—yielded some form of success. But when the economic conditions changed, optimism turned to protectionism. Funding dried up; deficits became more serious; the margin of error became thinner. Moreover, the shift was not temporary...

... of radio technology and social relations. This introductory chapter discusses the unique relationship between radio and anthropology, other disciplinary approaches to the study of radio, the emergence of radio studies as a field, how radio's relationship to place is addressed in cultural studies and in art...

... deals with the radio dial as a mediating interface. It begins with briefly tracing the early history of amateur radio technology and its advent as a sensorial revolution. It then discusses the crucial steps in the technological development of radio in the 1920s by focusing on the central role of radio...