ABSTRACT
John D. Peters says that, the radio signal is surely one of the strangest things the people know; little wonder its ability to spirit intelligence through space elicited immediate comparisons to telepathy, seances, and angelic visitations. One of the goals in the chapter is to actively deconstruct a notion of “noise” – not take what it is, or how it comes into existence, for granted, but take it as an ethnographic category. Noise as a concept has been constitutive of the Spiritualist movement in 19th-century United States. In an obvious sense, Faundez, Brackelaire, and Cornejo’s interlocutors, in much the same way as Carol Kidron’s are producing micro-histories in real-time; ever presentist, their only source of connection to what happened 40 years earlier, is through fragments, colored, intensified by affective dispositions, emotional content.
