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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hörl, Erich (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Amsterdam University Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Information theory.
Communication > Philosophy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Theorie de l'information > 20e siecle.
Theorie de l'information > 19e siecle.
Information theory > 20th century.
Information theory > 19th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • From Aristotle to Hörl / Nancy, Jean-Luc
  • Preface to the German Edition
  • Preface to the English Translation
  • Introduction
  • Part I In the Shadow of Formalization A History of Thinking
  • 1. Blind Thinking around 1900
  • 2. The Symbolic and Communication
  • 3. The Sacred and the Genealogy of Thinking
  • Part II The Specter of the Primitive A Hauntology of Communication
  • 4. The Night of the Human Being
  • 5. The End of the Archaic Illusion
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Names

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