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How Dark? Season One

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Politics and Government

How Dark? Season One

Ten Conversations with the FacelessBy Sinclair Ogaga Emoghene

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How Dark? Season One

Length6h 58m

About this audiobook

How Dark? Ten Conversations with the Faceless is the documentary record of what the modern technical media have been doing to the body across the past one hundred and forty-nine years. Season One follows ten apparatuses in turn, beginning with the telephone in 1876 and closing with the contemporary surveillance infrastructure of the present period. Each episode names what the apparatus has been built to do, by whom, against which bodies, and to what cumulative end. The body of the listener is the body the series has been written for. The body has been on the receiving end of the apparatus across the long century the series documents. The body now hears what has been done to it. Season Two follows.

Audiobook details

GenreHistory, Politics and Government

Length6 hrs 58 mins

Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices

FormateBook with Audio

Publish dateMay 19, 2026

LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Part 1

7Chapter 5: The Telegraph and the Telegram

2Introduction

8Chapter 6: The Phonograph, the Gramophone, and the Recording

3Chapter 1: The Telephone

9Chapter 7: The Press

4Chapter 2: The Radio

10Chapter 8: The Chat Window

5Chapter 3: The Television

11Chapter 9: The Voice Assistant

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6Chapter 4: The Cinema and the Photograph

12Chapter 10: Surveillance

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