Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television by Jeffrey Sconce, Duke University press, 2000.
Page 25, Rise of spiritualism suggests that Morse "could not have fashioned the magnetic telegraph" but basically the spirits helped him.
Page 29, how to build spirit battery with magnetic rope.
Page 30-31, Leyden jar - 1745 - first battery
Page 31, Galvani - electricity in dead frog.
Page 33, Franz Mesmer - therapeutic electricity
Page 36, "In electricity was suddenly seen the power to redeem all the dreams betrayed y the machine" (Carey and Quirk)
Page 43-44, Frank Tripler 1994 theory - "For many, then as now, metaphysics are more convincing when supported with some form of mathematics"
Page 46, Reichenbach and Odic force or the substance Odyle.
Page 46, Perception inverse to intellect.
page 65, Dx fishing - listening for radio broadcasts - contact more important than content.
Page 75, "Decidedly eerie Dx practice of 'ghost broadcasting' came into vogue ... turn the microphone on and, with the studio door locked and no one in the room, to listen for mysterious sounds on the station carrier".
Page 82, Thomas Edison - good long quote to base dialogue on.
Page 84, Attila von Szalay, 1956 reel to reel recording of a ghost.
Page 88 - funny surreal ghost quotes.
Page 93, Re: radio, 1922 transition year from purist communication to corporate distribution.
Page 96-97, Tesla, while working for Edison, got signals from Mars
Page 97, Professor David Todd - radio controlled dirigible to send signals to space from upper atmosphere.
Page 98, 1923 - first 3D movie "Radio Mania" AKA "MARS Calling" or "Man From Mars".
Page 113, Non-communication - mass media is only one way (broadcast is not "communicating")
Page 115-116, myth of War of the Worlds "panic".
Page 119, 1927 Theremin debut.
Page 128, herry Stephen Keeler "The Box from Japan"
Page 151, Keith Laumer short story "The Walls" in Amazing Stories, 1963, dystopia
Page 153, Mass culture = femminine, Modern Art = Masculine therefore Nietzche suggests "artist - philosopher-hero, the suffering lover who stands in irreconcilable opposition to modern democracy and its inauthentic culture"
Page 169, Baudrillard, postmodernism.
Page 171, "In their more delirious articulations, popular accounts of media culture often share the premise that television produces a separate and wholly sovereign 'reality.' What unites stories like Channel 10 from Nowhere with the more ecstatic stains of postmodern theory is this mutual vision of a living electronic landscape, a product of television's cultural ubiquity and its capacity for uninterrupted simultaneity."
Page 174, Robert Tilton, tele-evangilist. "Tilton takes care to assure viewers that his 'teletouch' still works even if that day's particular episode is a rerun! ... a slightly more sophisticated version of Romper Room's 'magic mirror'"
Page 205, Kill switch on X-Files, written by William Gibson.
Page 231, note 39, Tom Gunning, "Phantom Images and Modern Manifestations: Spirit Photography, Magic Theatre, Trick Films, and Photography's Uncanny." in Fugitive Images.
Page 208, "Cyberenthusiasts are no more insane than Christians, Buddhists, Muslims, or any other practitioner of mystic belief"
Page 25, Rise of spiritualism suggests that Morse "could not have fashioned the magnetic telegraph" but basically the spirits helped him.
Page 29, how to build spirit battery with magnetic rope.
Page 30-31, Leyden jar - 1745 - first battery
Page 31, Galvani - electricity in dead frog.
Page 33, Franz Mesmer - therapeutic electricity
Page 36, "In electricity was suddenly seen the power to redeem all the dreams betrayed y the machine" (Carey and Quirk)
Page 43-44, Frank Tripler 1994 theory - "For many, then as now, metaphysics are more convincing when supported with some form of mathematics"
Page 46, Reichenbach and Odic force or the substance Odyle.
Page 46, Perception inverse to intellect.
page 65, Dx fishing - listening for radio broadcasts - contact more important than content.
Page 75, "Decidedly eerie Dx practice of 'ghost broadcasting' came into vogue ... turn the microphone on and, with the studio door locked and no one in the room, to listen for mysterious sounds on the station carrier".
Page 82, Thomas Edison - good long quote to base dialogue on.
Page 84, Attila von Szalay, 1956 reel to reel recording of a ghost.
Page 88 - funny surreal ghost quotes.
Page 93, Re: radio, 1922 transition year from purist communication to corporate distribution.
Page 96-97, Tesla, while working for Edison, got signals from Mars
Page 97, Professor David Todd - radio controlled dirigible to send signals to space from upper atmosphere.
Page 98, 1923 - first 3D movie "Radio Mania" AKA "MARS Calling" or "Man From Mars".
Page 113, Non-communication - mass media is only one way (broadcast is not "communicating")
Page 115-116, myth of War of the Worlds "panic".
Page 119, 1927 Theremin debut.
Page 128, herry Stephen Keeler "The Box from Japan"
Page 151, Keith Laumer short story "The Walls" in Amazing Stories, 1963, dystopia
Page 153, Mass culture = femminine, Modern Art = Masculine therefore Nietzche suggests "artist - philosopher-hero, the suffering lover who stands in irreconcilable opposition to modern democracy and its inauthentic culture"
Page 169, Baudrillard, postmodernism.
Page 171, "In their more delirious articulations, popular accounts of media culture often share the premise that television produces a separate and wholly sovereign 'reality.' What unites stories like Channel 10 from Nowhere with the more ecstatic stains of postmodern theory is this mutual vision of a living electronic landscape, a product of television's cultural ubiquity and its capacity for uninterrupted simultaneity."
Page 174, Robert Tilton, tele-evangilist. "Tilton takes care to assure viewers that his 'teletouch' still works even if that day's particular episode is a rerun! ... a slightly more sophisticated version of Romper Room's 'magic mirror'"
Page 205, Kill switch on X-Files, written by William Gibson.
Page 231, note 39, Tom Gunning, "Phantom Images and Modern Manifestations: Spirit Photography, Magic Theatre, Trick Films, and Photography's Uncanny." in Fugitive Images.
Page 208, "Cyberenthusiasts are no more insane than Christians, Buddhists, Muslims, or any other practitioner of mystic belief"
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