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We still do not have the kind of analysis of the brief moment of radio that people have so passionately undertaken for the cinema on the one hand, and television on the other; but Brecht’s modernism—and the very modernism of his moment of history in general—is bound up with radio, and demands the acknowledgment of radio’s formal uniqueness as a medium, of its fundamental properties as a specific art in its own right, a form in which the antithesis of words and music no longer holds, but a new symbiosis of these two formerly separate dimensions is effectuated and rehearsed.

—Fredric Jameson, Brecht and Method

Radio confuses the philosophers. What is it that I am not present for the speaker at the microphone while he is present for me? Does presence itself split itself up? This is a very serious psychological problem.

—René Sudre, Le huitième art: Mission de la radio