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High Static, Dead Lines
High Static, Dead Lines: Sonic Spectres & the Object Hereafter | Kristen Gallerneaux
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A literary mix tape that explores the entwined boundaries between sound, material culture, landscape and esoteric belief. Trees rigged up to the wireless radio heavens. A fax machine used to decode the language of hurricanes. A broadcast ghost that hijacked a television station to terrorize a city. A failed computer factory in the desert with a slap-back echo resounding into ruin. In High Static, Dead Lines, media historian and artist Kristen Gallerneaux weaves a literary mix tape that explores the entwined boundaries between sound, material culture, landscape, and esoteric belief. Essays and fictocritical interludes are arranged to evoke a network of ley lines for the "sonic spectre" to travel through -- a hypothetical presence that manifests itself as an invisible layer of noise alongside the conventional histories of technological artifacts. The objects and stories within span from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, touching upon military, communications, and cultural history. A connective thread is the recurring presence of sound -- audible, self-generative, and remembered -- charting the contentious sonic histories of paranormal culture.
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Main floor bookseller Garrett K recommends Kristen Gallerneaux's High Static, Dead Lines for #staffpickfriday! ✨✨✨⠀
"This fascinating collection of essays sits at the intersection of hauntology, sound studies, history of technology, personal history and memory, and North American folklore. Gallerneaux's background as a folklorist is what really makes this collection shine."

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