Introduction (in Five Parts)

I.

While aware the new technologies

that enable "radio" to be delivered over the

Web require new theoretical and critical tools,

we're interested in a process of

comment and critique that also reflects on the adequacy

of older accounts of

radio in the face of, and within, new situations.

II.

 In these (still) early years of the Web,

virtual radio is already being imagined in a variety

of ways, even if most of these ways owe much

to the established forms and

discourses of radio

as they are currently constituted outside of the Web.

III.

It may be useful at the outset of this piece to confirm

our understanding that the instrumental

technology of "Web radio"

is inseparable from its rhetorical dimensions as

cultural or social technology.

IV.

 In this brief meditation we engage Web radio as a

site where metaphor, magic, and power converge.

V.

Navigation: You can work your way through this piece

by clicking on various links as they

appear on the pages ( a few will take you outside this project);

you can use the "Seek" button at the bottom of each page

to move in an "essayic" order, more or less;

you can use the "Scan" button at the bottom of each page to

move to a randomly linked page.

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