NOTES ON TEXTS RELATING TO 'WIRELESS'

NOTES -> WIRELESS
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Russian_Futurism_through_its_Manifestoes_1912-1928 / F.T. Marinetti, "Futurist Sensibility and the Wireless Imagination" / Velemir Khlebnikov, "Radio of the Future"

The Letter as Such: That the longhand peculiarly modified by one's mood conveys that mood to the reader, independently of the words. Also, one has to pose the question of graphic signs, visual signs, or simply tactile signs as if felt by the hand of a blind man.

Let us try to imagine Radio’s main station: in the air a spider’s web of lines, a storm cloud of lightning bolts, some subsiding, some flaring up anew, crisscrossing the buildings from one end to the other. A bright blue ball of spherical lightning hanging in midair, guy wires stretched out at a slant.

Radio is becoming the spiritual sun of the country, a great wizard and sorcerer. From this point in Planet Earth, every day, like the flight of birds in springtime, a flock of news departs, news from the life of the spirit.

This is how and why the poet's imagination must link distant things without conducting wires, using instead essential words absolutely in freedom. - Absolute freedom of images or analogies expressed by liberated words, without the conducting wires of syntax and without any punctuation.

Analogy is nothing but the immense love that connects distant, seemingly different and hostile, things

The vaster the connections an image encompasses, the longer it will keep its stupefying power"

Condensedmetaphors.- Telegraphicimages.- Sums ofvibrations.- Knotsofthoughts.- Fansofmovementopeningandclosing. - Abbreviationsofanalogies.- Statementsofcolors.- Dimensions,weight, measure, and speed of sensations. - Plunge of the essential word into the waters of sensibility minus the concentric circles that the word produces. - Pauses of intuition. - Movements in duple, triple, quadruple, quintuple time.- Explanatoryanalyticalpolescarryingthewiresofintuition. ????

onomatopoeia / Mathematical symbols??? --> encryption??(Is dat interessant)

And we place directions like these in parentheses- (fast) (faster) (slow down) (duple time)- to control the speed of the style. These paren- theses can also split up a word or an onomatopoeic chord.

"Rather than simply starting to pull theories of aurality out of a hat, we have chosen to ground Wireless Imagination in the more modest intent of documenting and charting sonographic resonances among the above existing histories, strangely dissonant and cacophonous as they may strike the naked ear"

→ INTERESTING? Thomas Edison believed that each person has small, noise-producing beings within them, and devised a machine to record these "life units" exiting dead bodies as they lay in their coffins.

→INTERESTING? Khlebnikov invented a "universal alphabet," in which each phoneme (just 25 in all) causes a certain emotional response, and is linked synesthetically with a color. So the phoneme "P," for example, causes "explosion, release of pressure," and is related to the color black outlined in red.

Techno utopia: belief that the advances of technology will create an utopia

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