UID:
almahu_9948663812302882
Format:
1 online resource (344 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9789048525607 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Recursions: theories of media, materiality, and cultural techniques
Uniform Title:
Heiligen Kanäle.
Content:
Erich Hörl's Sacred Channels is an original take on the history of communication theory and the cultural imaginary of communication understood through the notions of the sacred and the primitive. Hörl offers insight into the shared ground of anthropology and media theory in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and presents an archeology of the philosophy of technology that underpins contemporary culture. This singular and unique project focuses on the ethnological disciplines and their phantasmatic imaginations of a prealphabetical realm of the sacred and the primitive but reads them in the context of media cultural questions as epistemic unconscious and as projections of the emerging postalphabetical condition. Drawing inspiration from work by the likes of Friedrich Kittler, Hörl's understanding of cybernetics in the post-World War II interdisciplinary field informs a rich analysis that is of interest to media scholars and to anyone seeking to understand the historical and theoretical underpinnings of the humanities in the age of technical media.
Note:
Orignally published in 2005 as Die heiligen Kanäle: Die archaische Illusion der Kommunikation by Diaphanes, Zürich.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Feb 2021).
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9789089647702
Language:
English
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9789048525607/type/BOOK
