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Medium, Messenger, Transmission: An Approach to Media Philosophy: Recursions

Autor Sybille Krämer
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 iun 2015
This rich study provides a comprehensive introduction to media philosophy while offering a new perspective on the concept and function of transmission media in all systems of exchange. Kr mer uses the figure of the messenger as a key metaphor, examining a diverse range of transmission events, including the circulation of money, translation of languages, angelic visitations, spread of infectious diseases, and processes of transference and counter-transference that occur during psychoanalysis.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789089647412
ISBN-10: 9089647414
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Amsterdam University Press
Colecția Amsterdam University Press
Seria Recursions


Cuprins

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 Materialism
            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 Resonance
            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

Descriere

Medium, Messenger, Transmission uses the figure of the messenger as a key metaphor for the function of all transmission media.