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Sublime communication technologies
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Title
Sublime communication technologies / Rod Giblett.
ISBN
9780230584020
0230584020
023053743X
9780230537439
Published
Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Physical Description
1 online resource. (xiv, 218 pages) : illustrations
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Sublime Communication Technologies is a critical cultural history of communication technologies, from railways and telegraphy to computers and the Internet. These technologies are sublime in the sense that they carry information above the earth, transforming the solidities of pre-capitalist social formations into thin air. They play a pivotal role in the cultural history of modernity. In this lively new study, Rod Giblett proposes a shift from a mythology of communication technologies involving command and control to one promoting commonality and community. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary and historical sources, it is the first book to assemble into a single overall account the scattered work of Walter Benjamin, Paul Virilio and Raymond Williams on this crucial area of cultural debate.
Variant and related titles
Palgrave social & cultural studies collection 2008.
Other formats
Print version: Giblett, Rodney James. Sublime communication technologies. Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 19, 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-215) and index.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Flow along a Channel: Communication and its Technologies
Crude Conqueror of Nature: Steam Railways
Mind over Matter: Electrical Telegraphy
Shooting the Event: The Camera is a Gun, Photography is a Shot
The Hell of Images: Cinema Paradiso
Magician's Bower and Monstrous Mechanical: The Car as Communication Technology
The Magical in the Modern: Ethereal Radio
Disciplinary and Fĺnerie: The Panopticon and Panorama of Television
Orbiting in the Sublime Company of Heavenly Bodies: Satellites from Cold War to Gulf War
The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace and the Slimy Swamps of War: Computers and the Internet
Blue Sky Mining: Spectrum and Space
References
Index.
Genre/Form
Electronic books.
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