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Medium, Messenger, Transmission: An Approach to Media Philosophy

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Sybille Krämer
2015
Published by: Amsterdam University Press
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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.

Table of Contents

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Cover

pp. 1

Title Page, Copyright

pp. 2-5

Recursions: Editors' Introduction

pp. 6-7

Contents

pp. 8-9

Introduction: The Media Philosophy of Sybille Kr\xC3\xA4mer / Anthony Enns

pp. 10-19

Prologue: Transmission and/or Understanding? On the \xE2\x80\x98Postal' and \xE2\x80\x98Erotic' Principles of Communication

pp. 20-27

Methodological Considerations

pp. 28-39

Introductions

pp. 40

Walter Benjamin

pp. 41-48

Jean-Luc Nancy

pp. 49-55

Michel Serres

pp. 56-63

R\xC3\xA9gis Debray: Mediological Materialism131

pp. 64-68

John Durham Peters

pp. 69-75

The Messenger Model

pp. 76-87

Transmissions

pp. 87-88

Angels: Communication through Hybrid Forms

pp. 88-96

Viruses: Contagion through Transcription

pp. 97-108

Money: The Transmission of Property through Desubstantiation

pp. 109-117

Translation: Language Transmission as Complementation

pp. 118-126

Psychoanalysis: Transmission through Affective Resonance179

pp. 127-144

Witnessing: On the Transmission of Perception and Knowledge through Credibility

pp. 145-165

So What Does \xE2\x80\x98Transmission' Mean?

pp. 166-187

Test Case

pp. 188-211

Epilogue: Worldview Dimensions, Ambivalences, Possible Directions for Further Research

pp. 212-221

Notes

pp. 222-247

Bibliography

pp. 248-261

Index of Names

pp. 262-265

Index of Subjects

pp. 266-271
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