Reading 1:
Michael Bull (1999) ‘The dialectics of walking: Walkman use and the reconstruction of the site of experience’ in Jeff Hearn and Sasha Roseneil (eds) Consuming Cultures: Power and Resistance, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Macmillan. pp 199-220
Reading 2:
Anna McCarthy, 'From Screen to Site: Television's Material Culture, and Its Place', October 98, 2001, pp. 93-111
See Reading For Highlighted Notes
Martin Heidegger’s famous description of television as the “abolition of every possibility of remoteness” in “The Thing” leads smoothly toward Jacques Derrida’s coded allusion to television’s particular (im)materiality in an essay on a novel by Philippe Sollers: “While we remain attentive, fascinated, glued to what presents itself we are unable to see presence as such, since presence does not present itself, no more than does the visibility of the visible, the audibility of the audible, the medium or ‘air’ which disappears in the act of allowing to appear.”1 Together, these images bracket a core preoccupation with television as a form of writing across space, as a remote inscription that produces—and annihilates—places: the place of the body, the place of the screen, the place of dwelling.
p. 93
p. 93
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