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1. The Voice as Uncanny Index (Susan Hiller)

   2019-11-25 20:48:20 UTC
   “In the darkened projection room, the viewer hears twenty-five voices in succession speaking short passages in extinct or endangered languages. Susan Hiller collected the recordings for her twenty-one-minute audiovisual work The Last Silent Movie from a variety of archival sources. In some cases, the narrator is the last known speaker…

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2. Re-listening to Virginia Woolf

   2019-11-25 20:25:20 UTC
   “Woolf’s method of recording noise and response is unique among modernists. In Ulysses, for example, Joyce also shows a heightened sensitivity to resonance, and like Woolf, he underscores representations of noisy machines. Yet while Woolf presents sounds as inextricable from her characters’ thoughts, in Ulysses utterances are generally objective and…

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3. Where signs become forms and forms become acts

   2019-11-25 19:28:50 UTC
   WHERE SIGNS BECOME FORMS AND FORMS BECOME ACTSand the power of words and surfaceshow words become thingsthe becoming-thing of wordsthat invent spaces

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