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Sacred Channels: The Archaic Illusion of Communication (Recursions) - Tapa blanda

Hörl, Erich

 
9789089647702: Sacred Channels: The Archaic Illusion of Communication (Recursions)
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ISBN 10: 9089647708 ISBN 13: 9789089647702
Editorial: Amsterdam University Press, 2018

Sinopsis

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.

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Acerca del autor

Erich Hörl is Full Professor of Media Culture at Leuphana University of Lueneburg, Germany and director of the focus "Rethinking the technological condition" of Leuphanas Digital Culture Research Lab. Before he was Associate Professor of Media Philosophy and Technology at Ruhr-University Bochum. He is the founder of the Bochum Colloquium Mediastudies (bkm), an internationally renown series of diagnostical interventions concerning our contemporary techno-medial situation. He currently works on a General Ecology of Media and Technology.

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This book is an original take on the history of communication theory and the cultural imaginary of communication understood through the notions of holy and the primitive. It offers an insight to the shared ground of anthropology and media theory in 19th and 20th century and tracks archaeology of the philosophy of technology that underpins contemporary culture. It is a singular project which focuses in a unique way especially on the ethnological disciplines and their phantasmatic imaginations of a pre-alphabetical realm of the holy and the primitive but reads them in the context of media cultural questions: as epistemic unconscious and as projection of the emerging post-alphabetical condition. Drawing inspiration from work by the likes of Friedrich Kittler, Hörl's understanding of cybernetics in the post Cold War II interdisciplinary field informs the rich analysis that is of interest to media scholars and anyone wanting to understand the historical and theoretical underpinnings of humanities in technical media age.

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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.

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Editorial
Amsterdam University Press
Año de publicación
2018
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
9089647708
ISBN 13 
9789089647702
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
344
Contacto del fabricante
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