Sublime Communication Technologies

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ISBN: 023053743X
ISBN 13: 9780230537439
Autor: Giblett, Rod
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xiv, 218 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.01.2008
Auflage: 1/2008
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

Very lively look at communication technologies from railways and the telegraph to the mobile video phone – a critical cultural historyProvides an account of competing cultural theorists‘ positions illustrated by case studies of real-life communication technologiesInvestigates the metaphorical and cultural ‚baggage‘ that comes with these representatives of the sublime as a commentary on other aspects of political and social life, especially on consumption of cultural productsThe first book to assemble in a single overall account the work of Raymond Williams, Walter Benjamin and Paul Virilio on communication technologies

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Beschreibung

This lively new study is a critical cultural history of communication technologies, from railways and telegraphy to computers and the Internet, in which Rod Giblett argues that these technologies play a pivotal role in the cultural history of modernity and its project of the sublime.

Autorenporträt

ROD GIBLETT is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, School of Communications and Contemporary Arts, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. He is the author of Postmodern Wetlands: Culture, History, Ecology (1996) and Living with the Earth: Mastery to Mutuality (2004).

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