HELLO
Sarah Jackson – Hello?
Elizabeth Bruton – What we talk about when we talk about telephones
Will Self – Picking Up
Anne Archer – Passing the Call
CONVERSATION 1: HEARING VOICES
Thomas Karshan – Vladimir Nabokov on the Telephone
Alasdair Milne – The World Question Centre – Television and Telephony as a Space of Appearance
Stefana Fratila – Left on Read: Telepoetics of the Disembodied Voice
Mara Mills – Read Verse Out Loud for Pleasure: The Poetry of Telephone Testing
CONVERSATION 2: SCRAMBLED MESSAGES
Natalie Ferris – The ‘Wireless Voice’
Beatriz Lopez – Muriel Spark and the Scrambler Telephone
Imogen Free – Telepoetic desire & techno-heartache in Elizabeth Bowen’s To the North
Nicholas Royle – ‘B-r-ring!’
CONVERSATION 3: CONNECTION AND DISCONNECTION
Matthew Helm – ‘Oh, hilloo, darling!’: Telephonic Representation in Christopher Isherwood’s Goodbye to Berlin
Jordan Moore – ‘Mind the Wire’: David Jones and World War I Telephony
Don Sillence – Therefore, Send Not To Know For Whom The Phone Rings
Jessica Gray – The interrupting telephone in Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day
CONVERSATION 4: CALLING ACROSS BORDERS
Vahni Capildeo – ‘Rinse and Wring the Ear’: Reflections on being in long-distance conversation
Amy Sara Carroll – Teletechnopathic
Asiya Wadud – ‘Our distress calls like urgent plovers’: On Syncope
CONVERSATION 5: HACKING, HOAXES, HOMOPHONES, AND OTHER HANG-UPS
Annabel Williams – Smooth Operators: Hoaxes, Switchboards, and Midcentury Fiction
Tyne Daile Sumner – Poetry, Privacy, Paranoia: (Wire)tapping into the American Dream
Laurent Milesi – (H)allophonies: Cixous and Others on the Line
Eric Prenowitz – Telephone Hang-Ups: Homophones, Telefauns and other Technopoetic Communications
GOODBYE
Our final conversation – On saying goodbye