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.
Format: Hardback
CONTRIBUTORS: Sybille Krämer
EAN: 9789089647412
COUNTRY: Netherlands
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WEIGHT: 0 g
HEIGHT: 234 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Amsterdam University Press
DATE PUBLISHED: 2015-03-20
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GENRE: ART / Film & Video
WIDTH: 156 cm
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Book Themes:
Film history, theory or criticism
'An interesting read, with an incorporated overview of media theory'. - Ana Peraica, Leonardo on-line
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).
