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In Notes from Underground, Susan Sontag’s voice is translated into a grainy, undulating soundwave. I was doing research at the library, listening to an interview with Sontag that was broadcast on Swedish radio on the occasion of the publication of her book of short fiction, I, etcetera (1978), when a small window appeared on the database’s screen, framing a soundwave moving along to the ebb and flow of her voice. It’s how the database is programmed—though I still don’t know what purpose it serves, other than giving the ghostly feeling of seeing Sontag move.
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Tan, L. (2017). Notes from Underground. In: Aßmann, S., Moormann, P., Nimmerfall, K., Thomann, M. (eds) Wenden. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-14805-8_9
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