The Technopolitics of Aural Media: An Investigation Based on the Early History of Wireless Technology

LI Baoyu

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Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication ›› 2022, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (5) : 158-176.

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The Technopolitics of Aural Media: An Investigation Based on the Early History of Wireless Technology

LI Baoyu

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This paper argues that an investigation into the technopolitics of aural media entails exploring its role in society shaping, political usage, and citizenship construction, which all revolve around the nexus between aural media and auditory perception. Guided by the idea of “media as method,” the discussion will place particular emphasis on the ontology of radio broadcasting per se, especially foregrounding its aural dimension. By sketching out a historical trajectory of wireless technologies, it is my intention to address the following questions: What kind of auditory experience, as well as modern subjects, are formed as radio broadcasting trains auditory perception? And what relationship arises out of this process between radio broadcasting on the one hand and the organization of modern polity and the production of subjectivities on the other? Overall, this paper suggests that reflecting on issues such as how radio broadcasting affects political system, constructs communities, and shapes collective and individual personhood will contribute to a better understanding of radio’s structural attributes, together with the technopolitics of modern aural media.

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radio / the technopolitics / auditory modernity / aural communities

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LI Baoyu. The Technopolitics of Aural Media: An Investigation Based on the Early History of Wireless Technology[J]. Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication. 2022, 44(5): 158-176

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Footnotes

1. 1933年的未来主义无线电广播宣言是未来主义最后的宣言之一。马里内蒂与皮诺·玛斯纳塔宣告未来主义曾一度鼓吹的“机械艺术”时代之终结，并称传统艺术媒体已死亡，而未来将在电子新媒体之中展开。相对于受限于现场空间的传统表演艺术与造型艺术，他们着眼于无线电科技跨越时空及事物尺度的能力，并将广播科技视作未来艺术发展的原型。他们为广播媒体构想出了全新的美学形态。依他们而言，广播的声音象征了新艺术脱离传统形式限制的优越性，并将声音视作新知觉、新观念的理想载体。此处以radia代替radio，也有将无线电技术创造的可能性与建制化的广播电台区隔开来的意思。

2. 本文曾公布在1926年首演的《人就是人》的剧场节目里，原文标题为《来自一篇报告》。布莱希特何时、向谁发表这篇短文均无从详考。译文摘自《布拉特黑森州国家剧院》，达姆施塔特1932年7月第16号。全文见：贝托尔特﹒布莱希特（2015）。《论史诗剧》（陈奇佳主编，孙萌、李倩等译）。北京：北京师范大学出版社，65-68。

Funding

phased achievement of the Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Fund in 2020: “Radio and the Imagination of the Nation-State: the Social and Cultural History of China’s Early radio (1923-1937)”(20YC860015)

The project result of the Doctoral fellowship project of Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication: “The Soundscape of Broadcasting in ‘the East learning from the West’”

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