Salvador Dalí’s Liquid and Gaseous Television a Mystical and Wireless Dream
Anna Luigia de Simone
VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture August 7, 2025 DOI: 10.18146/view.342 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Mysticism |
| Keywords | Dream Unconscious mind Sky Mediation Transcendental number Entertainment Spirituality Spectacle Aesthetics Psychoanalysis Literature Visual arts Epistemology Astronomy Law |
| Key points | Argues that Dalí's Liquid and Gaseous Television reconfigures television as a wireless device for cosmic, spiritual communication, overturning passive viewing into an ecstatic experience. |
Abstract
How can you reach the sky? For Salvador Dalí, just turn on your TV. That is, the Liquid and Gaseous Television: one of his inventions (1975) turning TV into a vehicle for cosmic voyages that allow man to communicate with the universe. Perhaps even with God. This device needs no wires. In it, communicative and transcendental horizons converge, updating the surrealist techniques of activating the unconscious into a new formula aimed at overturning coercive television narcosis into a liberating mystical-cognitive three-dimensional ecstasy. Dalí’s wireless TV is a mechanism of mediation between reality and spirituality, discontinuity and reconfiguration, man and the sky. A dream or a model that embodies the future of television.
Comparable studies
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|---|---|---|---|
| The mystical mind: probing the biology of religious experience | 2000 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Religious and Mystical Experiences as Artifacts of Temporal Lobe Function: A General Hypothesis | 1983 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| The Problem of Pure Consciousness: Mysticism and Philosophy | 1993 | Edited collection of essays | |
| Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century | 2020 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Mysticism and schizophrenia: A phenomenological exploration of the structure of consciousness in the schizophrenia spectrum disorders. | 2016 | Theoretical or philosophical paper |