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Medium, Messenger, Transmission : An Approach to Media Philosophy.
This book presents an innovative new way of thinking about transmission media: through the figure of the messenger as a key metaphor. It explores a strikingly diverse range of types of transmission, including the circulation of money, the translation of languages, angelic visitations, the spread of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Recursions.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Introduction: The Media Philosophy of Sybille Krämer / Anthony Enns
- Prologue: Transmission and/or Understanding? On the 'Postal' and 'Erotic' Principles of Communication
- Methodological Considerations
- Is a Metaphysics of Mediality Possible?
- Introductions
- Walter Benjamin
- Jean-Luc Nancy
- Michel Serres
- Régis Debray: Mediological Materialism131
- John Durham Peters
- The Messenger Model
- An Initial Summary
- The Messenger as a Topos
- Transmissions
- Angels: Communication through Hybrid Forms
- Viruses: Contagion through Transcription
- Money: The Transmission of Property through Desubstantiation
- Translation: Language Transmission as Complementation
- Psychoanalysis: Transmission through Affective Resonance179
- Witnessing: On the Transmission of Perception and Knowledge through Credibility
- So What Does 'Transmission' Mean?
- Making Perceptible
- Reading Traces
- Test Case
- Maps, Charts, Cartography
- Epilogue: Worldview Dimensions, Ambivalences, Possible Directions for Further Research
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects.