... GUIN€A INTRODUCTION: MORAL EDUCATION AND NATION-STATE FORMATION The title of this paper, Take Care of Public Telephones, came to me in the mail. It is one of several exhortations that served as cancellation marks on the envelopes of letters that I received from Papua New Guinea over...

... as monuments to a glorious present and a promised future had become references to a now historical past. 61 I Public Culture Intimacy, Concept, Interaction: Artistic Potential of Voice Mail and the Telephone...

... divisions, anticipated their abolition, or called for their reinstatement and consolidation.1 Calling Telephones were introduced in the Philippines as early as 1885, during the last decade and a half of Spanish colonial...

... of “defective” babies in American medicine and motion pictures since 1915 . New York: Oxford University Press. Ronell, Avital. 1989 . The telephone book:Technology—schizophrenia—electric speech . Lincoln:University of Nebraska Press. Shakespeare, Tom. 1994 . Cultural representation of disabled people...

... Declares ‘War’ on ‘the Palestinian People.’ ” Daily Beast , July 7 . www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/07/israeli-politician-declares-war-on-the-palestinian-people.html . Shawa Saud . 2011 . Author telephone interview , August 29 . Shawa Saud . 2014a . Author telephone...

... technologies such as the telephone, radio, and television. 3 Ong’s (1982: 105) proposal that “writing restructures consciousness” puts the case less mellifluously, but with similar stress on technological disruption, and captures a sense in which the cyclical, repetitive, and collective thinking of oral...

..., the significance of Manaus lies in arrival. For another, its significance comes with departure. Some come to stay; others come to go, using Manaus in a manner akin to Avital Ronell’s description of the telephone system: “A place without location from...

... at the moment the Senate page beholds Lisa’s crisis of faith in democracy. He telephones a senator; the FBI entraps the corrupt congressman, on videotape; the Senate meets and expels him; George Bush signs the bill; a newspaper almost instantly reports...

...” recordings . In Recorded music: Performance, culture, and technology , edited by Bayley Amanda . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Bell Clive . 2009 . Sublime Frequencies: The secret life . Wire 303 : 28 – 33 . Bishop Alan . 2008 . Telephone interview with author...

... that the invention of writing would rob people of wisdom. Claude S. Fischer (1992 : 79) in his history of the telephone brilliantly documents how that new technology created similar conversations and concerns, right down to denouncements of those who abused the communications device by engaging in “frivolous...

... for radio in both Arabic and Persian is radio. The word rnidhiyyu was originally used for radio, but it did not take. The Arabic word coined for telephone, hutif(voice from the unseen), still survives but most people say “telephone,” Persian officially uses seavu simah (voice and picture...

... city, but it keeps being captured by the spe- cifics, the conditionalities, across different urban spaces. A bus, a telephone booth, an apartment or office building, even if standardized throughout much of a city, will take on diverse meanings and utilities across the diverse types of spaces...

... of China, Now it was almost impossible to find out anything. Television played irrelevant soap operas and Kung Fu movies; there were no news broadcasts, not even lies. Even telephone service from our university to different parts of Beijing was interrupted. Finally two expatriate friends and I...

...- est men in the country: the owner of the former public telephone monopoly, the tycoons of mass media, the old moguls of the press, and the leaders of business and finance. The most striking feature of the celebration was the careful exclusion of politicians. Not a single representative from...

... explain Public Cdmre 139 Vol. 3, No. 1: Fall 1990 140 Public Culture their glyphs of sometimes aesthetic ingenuity executed on the shopfionts, telephone poles, cemetery walls, and houses by the multitude of factions...

.... So we flew until we could land. We landed finally some hours after midnight. No coins, no knowledge of the different sounds made by American telephones. And landing in that great cold, I found the next day or that day that my book had been judged unsuitable by the publisher who had...

... for a newspaper-but in the manifold figurations of knowledge, through CNN, faxes, e-mail, the visible buying and selling of multinational corporations, the invisible telephone lines that link New York with Delhi or Tiruvella which with their rough...

... operator now associ- ated with Hughes Electronics) against the intergovernmental body Intelsat. Anselmo saw that Intelsat, by concentrating on the satellite transmission of data and telephone messages, was ignoring a trade opportunity...

... not permit the reception of any signals other than those bounced off INSAT 1-D, the somewhat wobbly Indian satellite with its payload jampacked with transponders dedicated to telephone services. But the government has little or no policing facilities to restrain dish-users from recbiving foreign...

... of English is sometimes compared to the spread of communication technologies, such as the telephone or the Internet (de Swaan 1993, 1998a, 1998b), but learning to use the telephone or the Internet is not difficult, whereas gaining proficiency...