عنوان

Sacred channels :

(Number (ISBN

9048525608

(Number (ISBN

9789048525607

Erroneous ISBN

9789089647702

Title Proper

Sacred channels :

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[Book]

Other Title Information

the archaic illusion of communication /

First Statement of Responsibility

Erich Hörl ; with a preface by Jean-Luc Nancy ; translated by Nils F. Schott.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[Place of publication not identified] :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Amsterdam University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2018.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource

Series Title

Recursions: Theories of Media, Materiality, and Cultural Techniques

Text of Note

"Originally published in 2005 as Die heiligen Kanäle: Die archaische Illusion der Kommunikation by diaphanes, Zurich."--Title page verso.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Erich Hörl's Sacred Channels is an original take on the history of communication theory and the cultural imaginary of communication understood through the notions of the sacred and the primitive. Hörl offers insight into the shared ground of anthropology and media theory in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and presents an archeology of the philosophy of technology that underpins contemporary culture. This singular and unique project focuses on the ethnological disciplines and their phantasmatic imaginations of a prealphabetical realm of the sacred and the primitive but reads them in the context of media cultural questions as epistemic unconscious and as projections of the emerging postalphabetical condition. Drawing inspiration from work by the likes of Friedrich Kittler, Hörl's understanding of cybernetics in the post-World War II interdisciplinary field informs a rich analysis that is of interest to media scholars and to anyone seeking to understand the historical and theoretical underpinnings of the humanities in the age of technical media.

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JSTOR

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22573/ctvckfmk4

Title

Sacred channels : the archaic illusion of communication.

International Standard Book Number

9789089647702

Communication-- Philosophy.

Information theory-- 19th century.

Information theory-- 20th century.

Communication-- Philosophy.

Information theory.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- General.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Regional Studies.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Sociology-- General.

SOC-- 002000

SOC-- 026000

SOC-- 053000

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Hörl, Erich

Date of Transaction

20200823214024.0

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[Book]

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