Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture, an interest that extended beyond his renowned critical essays. From 1927 to '33, he wrote and presented something in the region of eighty broadcasts using the new medium of radio. *Radio Benjamin* gathers the surviving transc
Radio
β Scribed by Al Smith
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing;Methuen
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 117 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Lying there, drifting up into those ancient lights was exactly like looking into the past. It is looking into the past. History, I think, is just a property of light.
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_Charlie Fairbanks was born in the dead center of the United States at the dead center of the twentieth century.
Americans are going to the Moon and Charlie's sure he'll be the first one there. But as he shines his spotlight on the Moon, so too does it illuminate the darker side to his nation's history.
Radio is a story about memory, love and spaceships.
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