When the Medium Was the Mission The Atlantic Telegraph and the Religious Origins of Network Culture.
""When the Medium Was the Mission" explores religious origins of network culture"--
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
2021.
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Colección: | North American Religions Ser.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: The Divine Destiny of the Shrinking Planet
- 1. What's the Matter with Networks? Spectacular Technology, US Mission, and Global Unity
- 2. The Great Fizzle: Protestant Affect, Obsolete Telegraphs, and US Nationalism
- 3. The End of Distance and the End of War: The Oneida Community and US Techno- Utopianism
- 4. "Received but Not Intelligible": Signals and Infrastructuralist Meaning
- Epilogue: Network Resonance
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author