ABSTRACT
The radio has no peculiar demand on the human body – it maintains a loose and flexible relationship with it. However, our relationship with the radio is an entirely different story. In this sense, the radio is an accessory, a plaything, which obeys us, submitting to our body, something that is not autonomous or independent. The displacement, disparity, and discord between the ear and noise constitute one of the radio's points of departure. The entire mission of the radio is to find the appropriate sounds for the ear. The radio creates a pure form of phonetic communication, removing all the auxiliary organs that have been used to facilitate communication, just as it has eliminated all the dialects. Television and computer, for example, can and do perform the radio's speaking-listening functions. They simply internalize most of its capacities into themselves – machines change very fast, such that the radio has to be reassembled with other types of machines to survive.
