Sacred channels : the archaic illusion of communication /

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Erich Hörl's Sacred Channels is an original take on the history of communication theory and the cultural imaginary of communication understood through the notions of the sacred and the primitive. Hörl offers insight into the shared ground of anthropology and media theory in the nineteenth and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hörl, Erich (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] : Amsterdam University Press (Bibliovault) : Amsterdam University Press, 2018.
Colección:Recursions: theories of media, materiality, and cultural techniques.
Temas:
1800-1999
Communication > Philosophy.
Information theory > 19th century.
Information theory > 20th century.
Théorie de l'information > 19e siècle.
Théorie de l'information > 20e siècle.
Information > Philosophie.
Film theory and criticism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Communication > Philosophy
Information theory
Media theory - anthropology - the holy - communication history - cybernetics.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Erich Hörl's Sacred Channels is an original take on the history of communication theory and the cultural imaginary of communication understood through the notions of the sacred and the primitive. Hörl offers insight into the shared ground of anthropology and media theory in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and presents an archeology of the philosophy of technology that underpins contemporary culture. This singular and unique project focuses on the ethnological disciplines and their phantasmatic imaginations of a prealphabetical realm of the sacred and the primitive but reads them in the context of media cultural questions as epistemic unconscious and as projections of the emerging postalphabetical condition. Drawing inspiration from work by the likes of Friedrich Kittler, Hörl's understanding of cybernetics in the post-World War II interdisciplinary field informs a rich analysis that is of interest to media scholars and to anyone seeking to understand the historical and theoretical underpinnings of the humanities in the age of technical media.
Notas:"Originally published in 2005 as Die heiligen Kanäle: Die archaische Illusion der Kommunikation by diaphanes, Zurich."--Title page verso.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789048525607
9048525608

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