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The Artsmesh: Recent Talk at UCSB

In Radio as an Apparatus of Communication, Brecht wrote, “Thus there was a moment when technology was advanced enough to produce the radio and society was not yet advanced enough to accept it.” He lamented the lost creative opportunity of a perfectly capable bi-directional medium which gravitated instead toward broadcasting. Walter Benjamin formulated how radio and TV reflected the image of the economic system. It was not a limitation of technology, but a limitation of social capacitance that patterned the communicational potential toward the one-to-many model.

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