“收到但听不懂”

Jenna Supp-Montgomerie
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本章通过分析1858年大西洋电报电缆上发送的内容来探讨通信的承诺和失败。然而,这是一种奇怪的内容分析,因为在电缆能够传输代码之前,电缆上的大部分通信仅仅由信号组成,甚至电缆可以传输的大部分代码都由一个字母组成。莫尔斯电码中的V-a贝多芬式的点-点-点-破折号成为故障后重建连接的主要方式。这些传输读起来更像是胡言乱语而不是真正的意思,更像是结巴而不是说话。因此,它们有助于说明使交流成为可能的结构上的脱节,尤其突出了电报开创了一种新的语言形式,这种语言既不代表世界上的事物,也不参考意义系统:信号。本章特别关注费迪南德·德·索绪尔、雅克·拉康和詹姆斯·凯里的工作,将基础设施作为对结构和后结构传播理论的补充,并认为宗教的创造性和情感力量使这些本质上毫无意义的信号变得重要。甚至在大西洋电报电缆能够传输语音之前,它就承载了一个神圣认可的全球统一的巨大想象。
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“Received but Not Intelligible”
This chapter explores the promises and failures of communication through an analysis of what was sent on the Atlantic Telegraph Cable of 1858. It is a strange sort of content analysis, however, since most of the communication on the cable consisted of mere signals before the cable was capable of transmitting code, and even much of the code the cable could transmit consisted of a single letter. The V—a Beethovenian dot-dot-dot-dash in Morse code—became the primary way to reestablish connection after failure. These transmissions read more like babble than meaning, more like a stutter than speech. As such, they help to illustrate the constitutive disconnections that make communication possible and, in particular, highlight the telegraph’s inauguration of a new form of language that neither represented things in the world nor referenced a system of meaning: the signal. With particular attention to the work of Ferdinand de Saussure, Jacques Lacan, and James Carey, this chapter turns to infrastructure as a supplement to structural and poststructural theories of communication and argues that the creative, affective force of religion made these essentially meaningless signals matter. Even before the Atlantic Telegraph Cable could transmit speech, it carried the hefty imaginary of a divinely sanctioned global unity.
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