Medium, Messenger, Transmission
Sybille Krämer
- Titel
- Medium, Messenger, Transmission
- Subtitel
- An Approach to Media Philosophy
- Auteur
- Sybille Krämer
- Prijs
- € 124,00 excl. BTW
- ISBN
- 9789089647412
- Uitvoering
- Hardback
- Aantal pagina's
- 270
- Taal
- Engels
- Publicatiedatum
- 20 - 03 - 2015
- Afmetingen
- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Open access
- Download op Open Access Platform
- Serie
- Recursions
- Categorie
- Media Studies
- Discipline
- Film, media en communicatie
- Ook beschikbaar als
- 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
Recensies en Artikelen
'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
De onderstaande tekst is niet beschikbaar in het Nederlands en wordt in het Engels weergegeven.
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.
Auteur
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).
