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Manaus: Television from the Borderless

Manaus: Television from the Borderless 1995, 7: 455-464 01995 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. 0899-2363/95/0702-06$0 1 .OO it simultaneously attracts and repels. Manaus remains a destination for the prototypical inhabitant of peripheral zones, and at the same time a point of departure for those who profit from the capitalist world-system. For one group of people, the significance of Manaus lies in arrival. For another, its significance comes with departure. Some come to stay; others come to go, using Manaus in a manner akin to Avital Ronell’s description of the telephone system: “A place without location from which to get to elsewhere.”* Geographically speaking, Manaus is a city in Brazil with a population of about 1.5 million people. It is situated on the banks of the Rio Negro within a few kilometers of the confluence of the Rios Negro and Solimoes, the strange and fascinating meeting of the waters which creates the Rio Amazon. Manaus is thus a milepost at the origin of the Rio Amazon, separated from the city of Belem by 1,300 kilometers (further by water) to the east. A five-hour flight, almost a week on a riverboat, and a bus journey where time hardly seems relevant, Belem signals http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Public Culture Duke University Press

Manaus: Television from the Borderless

Schwoch, James
Public Culture , Volume 7 (2) – Jan 1, 1995
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1995, 7: 455-464 01995 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. 0899-2363/95/0702-06$0 1 .OO it simultaneously attracts and repels. Manaus remains a destination for the prototypical inhabitant of peripheral zones, and at the same time a point of departure for those who profit from the capitalist world-system. For one group of people, the significance of Manaus lies in arrival. For another, its significance comes with departure. Some come to stay; others come to go, using Manaus in a manner akin to Avital Ronell’s description of the telephone system: “A place without location from which to get to elsewhere.”* Geographically speaking, Manaus is a city in Brazil with a population of about 1.5 million people. It is situated on the banks of the Rio Negro within a few kilometers of the confluence of the Rios Negro and Solimoes, the strange and fascinating meeting of the waters which creates the Rio Amazon. Manaus is thus a milepost at the origin of the Rio Amazon, separated from the city of Belem by 1,300 kilometers (further by water) to the east. A five-hour flight, almost a week on a riverboat, and a bus journey where time hardly seems relevant, Belem signals

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