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 emphasizes the self in the lack of subject, fixing and perpetuating the living testimony of the deceased in their absence.

Thesis: The phonograph emphasizes the self in the lack of subject. This machine bears a paradox: it identifies a voice, fixes the deceased (or mortal) person, registers the dead and thus perpetuates his living testimony, but also achieves his automatic reproduction in absentia: my self would live without me -- horror of horrors! Charles Grivel, 'The Phonograph's Horned Mouth'.

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