9781517910099: Action at a Distance
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ISBN 10 : 1517910099 ISBN 13 : 9781517910099
Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 2020

Synopsis

How are human actions shaped by the materiality of media?

Contemporary media leads us more than ever to an 'acting at a distance, ' an acting entangled with the materiality of communication and the mediality of transmission. This book explores this crucial phenomenon thereby introducing urgent questions of human interaction, the binding and breaking of time and space, and the entanglement of the material and the immaterial.

Three vivid inquiries deal with histories and theories of mediality and materiality: John Durham Peters looks at episodes of simultaneity and synchronization. Christina Vagt discusses the agency of computer models against the backdrop of aesthetic theories by Henri Bergson and Hans Blumenberg, and Florian Sprenger discusses early electrical transmissions through copper wire and the temporality of instantaneity.

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À propos de l?auteur

John Durham Peters is Maria Rosa Menocal Professor of English and of Film and Media Studies at Yale University.

Florian Sprenger is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt.

Christina Vagt is Assistant Professor of European Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Éditeur
University of Minnesota Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1517910099
ISBN 13 
9781517910099
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
95
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Personne responsable
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