Sublime Communication Technologies (Hardcover)

This is a lively look at communication technologies from railways and telegraph to the mobile video phone - a critical cultural history.This title provides an account of competing cultural theorists' positions illustrated by case studies of real-life communication technologies. It investigates the metaphorical and cultural 'baggage' that comes with these representatives of the sublime as a commentary on other aspects of political and social life, especially on consumption of cultural products. It is the first book to assemble in a single overall account the work of Raymond Williams, Walter Benjamin and Paul Virilio on communication technologies. This lively new study is a critical cultural history of communication technologies from railways and telegraphy to computers and the Internet, in which Rod Giblett argues that these technologies play a pivotal role in the cultural history of modernity and its project of the sublime.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2008
First published:	2008
Authors:	Rod Giblett
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	218
ISBN-13:	978-0-230-53743-9
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-230-53743-X
Barcode:	9780230537439

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