Meditations in an Emergency

Meditations in an Emergency

Foreign radio

From transmitter to receiver

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Rosecrans Baldwin
Feb 13, 2021
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Vincent with a radio (1974), Alex Katz

This week, early mornings, a South African broadcaster calls the Australian Open in the background. Lunchtime, it’s the BBC, a program about soccer news that I don’t quite follow, or a panel discussion on what remains of the revolution in Sudan. Sometimes I’ll tune the stereo in the living room to France Inter, to b…

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