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The seven (but kind of eight) phones that take up the bulk of the space in this slide are all twentieth century phones. Although many of the images or memes you include in your slides are of twentieth century phones, the written part of the text tends to focus primarily on the twenty-first century phone. If it is the phone that is "screaming to be heard", is the phone thus personified as needy? In this, I can see this final slide as presenting (enacting) different I responses i to the call of the phone, call through the phone, the call I before i (and after) the phone (Teruah!) from a whisper or scream. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on the reading of poet Bill Bissett from a video about the book "RUSH: What F##kan Theory: A Study uv Language" regarding poetry in Canada, sexuality, and poetry theory. Topics discussed include a comment from Marshal McLuhan of Acoustic Space on the landscape, elation and erration of poetry, the issue that reflects the video such as discrimination and colloquations, and carnal sterophony.