The allure of the once subversive technology of radio transmission for its seemingly inherently revolutionary qualities in fiction and in real life, falls short when set against today’s revolution. It, like many coalitional mediating technologies now, is secondary to and serves the always-evolving work of care and resourcefulness.

Science and the state are the synecdochic hands of a puritanical society, excising the unhealthy, the cancerous, pushing death to the margins. The outcome of the decision is entirely unimportant — we have explicitly held that the patient is dead in the first place. What exists is a warm cadaver onto whom all manner of ethical mess and biopower is inscribed. This two-pronged apparatus would have us all liminally alive, on life support, patiently waiting to be allowed our death.