Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author Barker, Timothy, author.

Title Against transmission : media philosophy and the engineering of time / Timothy Barker.

Publication Info. London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
©2018

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (x, 176 pages)
Technology language
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Against Transmission introduces the technical history and phenomenology of media, a field of study that explains the characteristics of contemporary life by looking to the technical properties of machines. By studying the engineering of signal processing, the book interrogates how the understanding of media-as-machine exposes us to a particular phenomenological relationship to the world, asking: what can the hardware of machines that segment information into very small elements tell us about experiences of time, memory and history?This book offers both a detailed and radical investigation of the technical architecture of media such as television, computers, cameras, and cinematography. It achieves this through in-depth archive research into the history of the development of media technology, combined with innovative readings of key concepts from philosophers of media such as Harold A. Innis, Marshall McLuhan, Friedrich Kittler, Siegfried Zielinski and Wolfgang Ernst. Teaming philosophical inquiry with thorough technical and historical analysis, in a broad range of international case studies, from early experimental cinema and television to contemporary media art and innovative hardware developments, Barker shows how the technical discoveries made in these contexts have engineered the experiences of time in contemporary media culture.
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Media Temporalities: An Introduction to the Media Philosophical Approach -- 2. Media Aesthetics -- 3. Post-Historical Scenes -- 4. Radical Cutting of Experimental Television -- 5. Time and Contemporary Television.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Mass media -- Philosophy.
Mass media -- Philosophy.
Mass media -- Technology.
Mass media.
Mass media -- Aesthetics.
Mass media -- Aesthetics.
Mass media and culture.
Mass media and culture.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Barker, Timothy. Against transmission. London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018 1474293093 9781474293099 (OCoLC)989029090
ISBN 9781474293082 (electronic book)
1474293085 (electronic book)
9781474293112 (EPUB)
1474293115 (EPUB)
9781474293129 (online)
1474293123
9781474293099 (hardcover)
1474293093 (print)
9781474293105 (paperback)
1474293107
9781474293105