Medium, Messenger, Transmission
Sybille Krämer
- Title
- Medium, Messenger, Transmission
- Subtitle
- An Approach to Media Philosophy
- Author
- Sybille Krämer
- Price
- € 124,00 excl. VAT
- ISBN
- 9789089647412
- Format
- Hardback
- Number of pages
- 270
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 20 - 03 - 2015
- Dimensions
- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Open Access
- Download on Open Access Platform
- Series
- Recursions
- Category
- Media Studies
- Discipline
- Film, Media, and Communication
- Also available as
- eBook PDF - € 123,99
I. Prologue
1. Transmission and/or Understanding? On the "Postal" and "Erotic" Principles of Communication
II. Methodological Considerations
2. Is a Metaphysics of Mediality Possible?
III. Introductions
3. Walter Benjamin
4. Jean-Luc Nancy
5. Michel Serres
6. Régis Debray
7. John Durham Peters
IV. The Messenger Model
8. An Initial Summary
9. The Messenger as Topos
V. Transmission Relations
10. Angels: Communication through Hybridization
11. Viruses: Contagion through Transcription
12. Money: The Transmission of Property through Desubstantiation
13. Translation: Language Transmission as Complementation
14. Psychoanalysis: Transmission through Affective Resonance
15. Witnessing: Bearing Witness through Credibility
VI. What Does "Transmission" Mean?
16. Making Perceptible
17. Reading Traces
VII. Test
18. Maps, Charts, Cartography
VIII. Epilogue
19. World View Dimensions, Ambivalences, Possible Directions for Further Research
Bibliography
Reviews and Features
'An interesting read, with an incorporated overview of media theory'. - Ana Peraica, Leonardo on-line
Sybille Krämer
Medium, Messenger, Transmission
An Approach to Media Philosophy
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. Krämer 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.
Author
Sybille Krämer
Dr. Sybille Krämer is professor of theoretical philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin. She is the author of six books: Technik, Gesellschaft und Natur: Versuch über ihren Zusammenhang (1982), Symbolische Maschinen: Die Idee der Formalisierung in geschichtlichem Abriss (1988), Berechenbare Vernunft: Kalkül und Rationalismus im 17. Jahrhundert (1991), Sprache, Sprechakt, Kommunikation: Sprachtheoretische Positionen des 20. Jahrhunderts (2001), Gewalt der Sprache - Sprache der Gewalt (2005), and Medium, Bote, Übertragung: Kleine Metaphysik der Medialität (2008).
