Medium, Messenger, Transmission Sybille Krämer ; translated by Anthony Enns.
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. Krm̃er uses the figure of the messenger as a key metaphor, examining a diverse range of transmission events, includ...
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Amsterdam University Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- 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 DesubstantiationTranslation: 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.