Notes on the Wire
Telegraphic Opening and Ideology in Modern Afghanistan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7985848 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fatima Mojaddedi (0009-0000-3211-4721, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 49-72 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Afghanistan (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2399-357X • E-ISSN: 2399-3588 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/afg.2023.0103 |
| OpenAlex | W4366404958 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
This article considers the cultural and political force of the telegraph in early twentieth-century Afghanistan where new media technology influenced the social milieu and transformed the sense of contemporary consciousness. I consider how wired and wireless telegraphy were interwoven with Allied imperial aims in the inter-war years and specifically how they became a much-anticipated medium of global connectivity and of ideological anxiety and political sabotage. I argue that at the heart of this tension there was a much deeper ambivalence about the place of ideological and cultural difference in the modern era of technological acquisition and a concomitant anxiety about the task of interpreting that difference
Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Art · Consciousness · Epistemology · Ideology · Media studies · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Military History and Strategy · Philosophy · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |