Do Sheep Dream of Electric Ruins? Encounters with Transatlantic Wireless Landscapes
This article examines the Derrigimlagh bog in Ireland as a site of infrastructural ruination and media archaeology, focusing on the remnants of the Marconi transatlantic wireless station and the broader implications of technological obsolescence. Through an interdisciplinary approach combining envir...
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| description | This article examines the Derrigimlagh bog in Ireland as a site of infrastructural ruination and media archaeology, focusing on the remnants of the Marconi transatlantic wireless station and the broader implications of technological obsolescence. Through an interdisciplinary approach combining environmental humanities, media archaeology, and speculative documentary practices, the study considers how the bog serves as both a repository of past electromagnetic infrastructures and a terrain for imagining future cycles of extraction and decay. The presence of sheep grazing among the ruins is analysed as a material and symbolic intervention, reframing nonhuman agency within the entanglement of media, landscape, and industrial afterlives. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e24aa82135b14a79b929fca341b717202025-08-20T02:56:59ZengNetherlands Institute for Sound and VisionVIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture2213-09692025-08-011427102110.18146/view.361338Do Sheep Dream of Electric Ruins? Encounters with Transatlantic Wireless LandscapesMatt Parker0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5855-5699Annenberg School for Communication, University of PennsylvaniaThis article examines the Derrigimlagh bog in Ireland as a site of infrastructural ruination and media archaeology, focusing on the remnants of the Marconi transatlantic wireless station and the broader implications of technological obsolescence. Through an interdisciplinary approach combining environmental humanities, media archaeology, and speculative documentary practices, the study considers how the bog serves as both a repository of past electromagnetic infrastructures and a terrain for imagining future cycles of extraction and decay. The presence of sheep grazing among the ruins is analysed as a material and symbolic intervention, reframing nonhuman agency within the entanglement of media, landscape, and industrial afterlives.https://account.viewjournal.eu/index.php/up-j-viewjethc/article/view/361media infrastructureruinselectromagnetic landscapesecologyspeculative filmfieldworkmarconihistory |
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| title | Do Sheep Dream of Electric Ruins? Encounters with Transatlantic Wireless Landscapes |
| title_full | Do Sheep Dream of Electric Ruins? Encounters with Transatlantic Wireless Landscapes |
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| title_short | Do Sheep Dream of Electric Ruins? Encounters with Transatlantic Wireless Landscapes |
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