...Mara Mills This article traces the history of speech wave visualization and the longstanding relationship between phonetics, communication engineering, and deaf oral education. American telephone engineers drew on this history to build the sound spectrograph in the 1940s, a machine that transformed...

..., the telephone, and, more recently, the Internet. In the summer of 1939, Futurama, the General Motors Highway and Horizons exhibit at the New York World’s Fair, gave the 5 million Ameri- cans who saw it their first taste of a future determined by an advanced high- way system crisscrossing the entire...

..., address, and telephone number should be listed on the front page of each copy. For further information, please contact Michèle Sharon, the man- aging editor, at misharon@rci.rutgers.edu. Hard copies may be sent to: Managing Editor Social Text 8 Bishop Place New Brunswick, NJ 08903 ...

..., telephone systems, stock markets) breaking down. Even as a middle class grows in South Asia, the emergent bourgeoisie accumulate technological prostheses in the house: TVs, VCRs, and computers. These prostheses are fetishes...

... critics such as Friedrich Kittler, Lisa Gitelman, Sadie Plant, and Steven Connor have cast a wider historical and conceptual net by analyzing film, the phono- graph, the telephone, and the radio as informational technologies...

... in this rhetoric. As rapturous proclamations of the Internet’s ability to connect everyone, everywhere echoed the predictions that greeted the age of the telephone, so did neo- criticism’s imperative to embrace the new and transform the body fall...

... obedience because it is based on the transnational social space that permits both sides of the border to be in almost simultaneous communication. The frequent telephone calls become reports on how the woman and her children behave, as well as the medium for giving orders and imposing punishment...

... to the death. You, yourself, and your body. You enter an utterly different temporality, a time out of time. Stunned, after that telephone call that interrupted the class you were teach- ing, the words on the blackboard, the murmur...

... Esteban Muñoz” in Social Text , no. 121 (2014). 1 Muñoz, Cruising Utopia , 99 . Henceforth page numbers for this work are given in text. 2 Ronell, Telephone Book , 1–44 . 3 Moten and Harney, Undercommons . 4 See, e.g., the white supremacist appropriation of identity...

... believed he was dead, and his name had been given to another child. Martha Michaels of Iqaluit has described waiting for news of her sister who went away to be treated for tuberculosis and was never heard from again: “I used to always expect Napatsie to come back. When we first got telephones I thought...

... included requests to be among the few who could meet relatives living in the West Bank and Jordan through the Mandelbaum Gate, to secure employment in the educational system, to get a telephone line, to receive permits for a variety...

... was transformed into an elaborate tented city, complete with railways, post office, and telephone and telegraphic facilities. As Curzon noted, the durbar would be “no mere pageant” but rather an “act of supreme public solemnity, demonstrating to ourselves our...

..., personal homes, mosques, rooftop water tanks, bus stops, and telephone booths. Throughout Oman, in other words, many new state (and private) constructions are often adorned with fortresslike crenellations. As the visual proof of Oman’s...

...- ings for psychics, telephone fortune-telling services, and tarot readings fi ll pages and pages of the phone book. There is a constant stream of astro- logical institutes and organizations devoted to paranormal phenomena, which offer...

... of a Dispossessed: Interview with Tamer Nafar,” 15 May 2008, www.democracynow.org/2008/5/15/slingshot_hip_hop_palestinian_rap _group. 33. ’Adi, telephone interview by the authors, 6 February 2011. 34. Ragtop, e- mail communication with the authors, 7 February 2008. 35. Democracy Now...

... and the students in Tiananmen Square were not entirely powerless: they had telephones and fax machines, Newsweek and Time magazine behind them. Hence a visual dossier on China and the human cannot focus just...

... have in common with each other—has been radically evac- uated. The proletarianized teachers who will be the only experience that most students have of a language department generally don’t even enjoy such necessities as offices, telephones, or photocopying privileges—much less the protections of due...

... or historical evolution of public attitudes, a more probing analysis uncovers the central role of less passive determinants at work. The persuasiveness of new telecommunications technologies such as the telephone, radio, film, and television...

...; published magazines, books, and pamphlets; conducted wide-reaching interventionist actions; Risky Subjects 49 set up support networks and telephone help lines; attempted to negotiate...

... territorial extension, acts constituted with attention to the surveilled body’s money trail (e.g., purchases and donations), its library borrowing, its telephone conversations, its Internet travels, and its patterns of consumption, among...