Radiotext(e) (1993)

New York City: Semiotext(e) (book, anthology, 1st), 1993.
9" x 6" x 0.75", 350 pages, softcover, ISBN 0-936756-94-2.

Radiotext(e), edited by Neil Strauss and Dave Mandl, published by Semiotext(e) (New York City) in 1993.

This contains "Audiology: A Cut-Up of William Burroughs and Gregory Whitehead" by Jim Andrews, pp. 66-70, a cut-up using William S. Burroughs’ The Job.

This copy was acquired from Philip Smith, Bookseller (Berkeley, California).

Not in Shoaf.

Contents: 

• Neil Strauss: introduction
• EARLY SPARKS:
• Bertolt Brecht: "The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication" (essay)
• Kurt Schwitters: "A Stimulus to Make the Most Productive Use of Radio" (essay)
• Rudolf Arnheim: "In Praise of Blindness" (esay)
• Kurt Weill: "Radio and the Restructuring of Musical Life" (essay)
• Walter Benjamin: "Theater and Radio: Toward the Mutual Control of Their Work of Instruction" (essay)
• Velimir Khlebnikov: "The Radio of the Future" (essay)
• HAGIOGRAPHIES:
• Rev. Dwight Frizzell and Jay Mandeville: "Early Radio Bigwigs" (essay)
• The Hound, Rob Weisberg, Lorenzo Milam, and Irwin Chusid: "Lives of the Great DJs" (essay)
• G. Vassilatos: "Dreams of Space" (essay)
• Tony Faulkner: "FM: Frequency Modulation or Fallen Man" (essay)
• Jim Andrews: "Audiology: A Cut-Up of William Burroughs and Gregory Whitehead" (cut-up essay)
• ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES:
• John Corbett: "Radio Dada Manifesto (An Excoriation with Six Histories)" (essay)
• Félix Guattari: "Popular Free Radio" (essay)
• Tetsuo Kogawa: "Free Radio in Japan: The Mini FM Boom" (essay)
• Joseph Lanza: "Adventures in Mood Radio" (essay)
• Steve Post: "Son of Playlist: The Decline and Fall of Commercial Free-Form Radio"  (essay)
• Geert Lovink: "The History of Mixing: An Inventory of Free Radio Techniques in Amsterdam" (essay)
• Erwin S. Strauss: "Pirate Radio Pirates" (essay)
• Marc Raboy: "Radio as an Emancipatory Cultural Practice" (essay)
• BROADCASTS:
• Norman Corwin: "Seems Radio Is Here to Stay" (poetry?)
• Filippo Tomasso Marinetti: "Radio Sintesi" (poetry)
• Ezra Pound: "America Was Promises"  (essay)
• Edward R. Murrow: "Broadcast from Buchenwald" (essay)
• Emperor Hirohito: "Imperial Surrender Broadcast" (statement)
• Frank Ballesteri (the Vanilla Bean): "The Vanilla Bean Talks to a Phone Hooker About Elvis Live on WFMU" (interview)
• Happy Harry Hard-On: "Pump Up the Rants" (essay)
• PERPETRATORS:
• George Orwell: "Poetry and the Microphone" (essay)
• Margaretta D'Arcy: "Playing with the Airwaves" (essay)
• Muzak: "The Ergonomy of Music" (essay)
• Helen Thorington: "The Noise of the Needle" (essay)
• La Monte Young: "Ruminations on Radio" (essay)
• Bart Plantenga: "Wreck This Mess" (essay)
• Jeff Zilm: "Nomad Radio" (essay)
• LISTENERS:
• Hakim Bey: "Critique of the Listener" (essay)
• Christof Migone: "Incessantly" (prose)
• Allen Chapman: "The Radio Boys Trailing a Voice, or Solving a Wireless Mystery" (prose)
• Julia Loktev: "Static Motion, or the Confessions of a Compulsive Radio Driver" (essay)
• Jody Berland: "Contradicting Media: Toward a Phenomenology of Listening" (essay)
• Gaston Bachelard: "Reverie and Radio" (essay)
• Gary Gumpert: "The Dental-Musical Suite" (essay)
• CONTROL:
• United States Office of Censorship: "Code of Wartime Practices for American Broadcasters" (statement)
• Derrick Sington and Arthur Weidenfeld: "Broadcasting in the Third Reich" (essay)
• Leon Trotsky: "Radio, Science, Technology, and Society" (essay)
• Mark Dery: "Jammers, Spookers, and Scramblers: Information War in the Ether" (essay)
• Nigel Ayers: "Sound, Health, Radio, and the News" (essay)
• CRANKS:
• Dave Mandl: "How Awful Is the Radio in Your City? Take This Simple Test" (quiz)
• Theodor Adorno: "A Social Critique of Radio Music" (essay)
• Arnold Schoenberg: "The Radio" (essay)
• Tim Wilson: "Acoustic Architecture"  (essay)
• Soyeun Chun: "Edison, My Unmaker" (essay)
• NEW APPROACHES:
• R. Murray Schafer: "Radical Radio" (essay)
• Abbie Hoffman: "Guerilla Radio" (essay)
• David Ciaffardini: "Ways to Get on the Air" (essay)
• Jacki Apple: "The Art of Radio" (essay)
• Negativland: "Teletours in Negativland" (essay)
• PARANORMAL APPLICATIONS:
• Upton Sinclair: "Mental Radio" (essay)
• V. Pekelis: "Several Episodes from My Personal Experience with Telepathy" (essay)
• Carola Morales: "Radio From Beyond the Grave" (essay)
• EXTRATERRESTRIAL POSSIBILITIES:
• Neil Strauss: "Hydrogen Jukebox" (essay)
• John Keel: "Biological Radio" (essay)
• David Simons: "Radio Galaxy" (essay)