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Non-Embodied Old Voices? Problematizing Old Age, Embodiment, and Scepticism in Radio Art
| Resumo: | In this article, I endeavour to demonstrate how a number of works by like-minded mid-twentieth-century radio practitioners (Robert Pinget’s La Manivelle, Samuel Beckett’s Embers, Harold Pinter’s A Slight Ache and Tom Stoppard’s Artist Descending a Staircase) thematize old age the better to exploit (or perhaps even parody) radio’s perceived unique ability to foster epistemological scepticism and to enable the conceptualization of fantasies of non-embodiment. I argue that these works do not seek to establish an aural aesthetics of non-embodiment but instead remain explorations of (im)possibilities which are never even fully articulated, much less hankered after or dismissed offhand. |
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| Autores principais: | Querido, Pedro |
| Assunto: | Radio Mind/body dualism Cartesian doubt Non-embodiment Old age Ageing |
| Ano: | 2019 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Resumo: | In this article, I endeavour to demonstrate how a number of works by like-minded mid-twentieth-century radio practitioners (Robert Pinget’s La Manivelle, Samuel Beckett’s Embers, Harold Pinter’s A Slight Ache and Tom Stoppard’s Artist Descending a Staircase) thematize old age the better to exploit (or perhaps even parody) radio’s perceived unique ability to foster epistemological scepticism and to enable the conceptualization of fantasies of non-embodiment. I argue that these works do not seek to establish an aural aesthetics of non-embodiment but instead remain explorations of (im)possibilities which are never even fully articulated, much less hankered after or dismissed offhand. |
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