| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
"Originally published in 2005 as Die heiligen Kanäle: Die archaische Illusion der Kommunikation by diaphanes, Zurich."-- Title page verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- From Aristotle to Hörl / Nancy, Jean-Luc -- Preface to the German Edition -- Preface to the English Translation -- Introduction -- Part I In the Shadow of Formalization A History of Thinking -- 1. Blind Thinking around 1900 -- 2. The Symbolic and Communication -- 3. The Sacred and the Genealogy of Thinking -- Part II The Specter of the Primitive A Hauntology of Communication -- 4. The Night of the Human Being -- 5. The End of the Archaic Illusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index of Names |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Communication -- Philosophy.
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Communication -- Philosophy. |
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Information theory -- 19th century.
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Information theory. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Information theory -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| ISBN |
9789048525607 (electronic book) |
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9048525608 (electronic book) |
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