High Static, Dead Lines - Sonic Spectres & the Object Hereafter

A literary mix tape that explores the entwined boundaries between sound, material culture, landscape and esoteric belief. Trees rigged up to the wireless radio heavens. A fax machine used to decode the language of hurricanes. A broadcast ghost that hijacked a television station to terrorize a city. A failed computer factory in the desert with a slap-back echo resounding into ruin. In High Static, Dead Lines , media historian and artist Kristen Gallerneaux weaves a literary mix tape that explores the entwined boundaries between sound, material culture, landscape, and esoteric belief. Essays and fictocritical interludes are arranged to evoke a network of ley lines for the "sonic spectre" to travel through--a hypothetical presence that manifests itself as an invisible layer of noise alongside the conventional histories of technological artifacts. The objects and stories within span from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, touching upon military, communications, and cultural history. A connective thread is the recurring presence of sound--audible, self-generative, and remembered--charting the contentious sonic histories of paranormal culture.

Product details

• Authors: Kristen Gallerneaux
• Publisher: Random House USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781907222665
• ISBN: 978-1-907222-66-5
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 203 mm x 27 mm
• Series: The MIT Press; Strange Attractor Press
• Subjects: Guides > Spirituality > Esoterics; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science