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Medium, Messenger, Transmission: An Approach to Media Philosophy

Contributor(s): Krämer, Sybille (Author)

ISBN: 9789089647412

Publisher: Routledge

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Pub Date: March 20, 2015

Dewey: 302.23

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Maps

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.80" H x 9.40" L x 6.30" W ( 1.15 lbs) 270 pages

Series: Recursions

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Description: Medium, Messenger, Transmission uses the figure of the messenger as a key metaphor for the function of all transmission media.

Brief description: 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).

Review Quotes: 'An interesting read, with an incorporated overview of media theory'. - Ana Peraica, Leonardo on-line

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