The mass distribution of advertising and information via radio propelled capitalism into a new logic of accumulation, penetrating private spaces with the collection and distribution of commodified information. Archaeological, ethnographic, and archival evidence about the heterogenous ways radio has been deployed, received, resisted, and adopted reveals that our system of monopolized mass media and surveillance capitalism is not an inevitable extension of technological advancement. Rather it is a choice, accommodation, and contingency brokered by hegemonic forces and diverse publics. Examples of radio usage from throughout history, however, demonstrates that cracks in the capitalist disimagination machine have been present since the beginning.

通过广播大量传播广告和信息将资本主义推向了一种新的积累逻辑，通过商品化信息的收集和传播渗透到私人空间。关于无线电部署、接收、抵制和采用的异质方式的考古、民族志和档案证据表明，我们的垄断大众媒体和监视资本主义系统并不是技术进步的必然延伸。相反，它是一种由霸权力量和不同公众调解的选择、适应和偶然事件。然而，历史上无线电使用的例子表明，资本主义的幻想破灭机器从一开始就存在缺陷。