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11%OFFAvital Ronell - The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech - 9780803289383 - V9780803289383
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The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech

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Description for The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech Paperback.
The telephone marks the place of an absence. Affiliated with discontinuity, alarm, and silence, it raises fundamental questions about the constitution of self and other, the stability of location, systems of transfer, and the destination of speech. Profoundly changing our concept of long-distance, it is constantly transmitting effects of real and evocative power. To the extent that it always relates us to the absent other, the telephone, and the massive switchboard attending it, plugs into a hermeneutics of mourning. The Telephone Book, itself organized by a "telephonic logic," fields calls from philosophy, history, literature, and psychoanalysis. It installs a switchboard ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
466
Condition
New
Number of Pages
484
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803289383
SKU
V9780803289383
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About Avital Ronell
Avital Ronell is an associate professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Her first book, Dictations: On Haunted Writing (1986), treats Goethe's invention of remote control in writing.

Reviews for The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech
"With The Telephone Book, the deconstruction of 'phonocentrism' takes an unheard-of turn: Heidegger and Derrida are joined by Alexander Graham ('Ma') Bell in a party line that leaves one's ears (and eyes) ringing. Working with an advanced form of optical fiber, Avital Ronell establishes scandalously clear connections between her long-distance callers, and through them, between the mediatic and the literary, ... Read more

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