Media Manifestos: On the Technological Transmission of

Media Manifestos: On the Technological Transmission of Cultural Forms
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In this volume RÃ©gis Debray sums up over a decade of his research and writing on the evolution of subjects of communication and the technologically transmitted interventions of the modern intelligentsia in France. Media ManifestosÂ announces the battle-readiness of a new sub-discipline of the sciences humaines:Â â€œmedialogy.â€ Scion of that semiology of the sixties linked with the names of Roland Barthes and Umberto Ecoâ€”and affiliated trans-Atlantically to the semiotics of C.S. Pierce and media analyses of Marshall McLuhan (â€œmedia is messageâ€)â€”â€œmediologyâ€ is in dialectical revolt against its parent thought-system. Determined not to lapse back into the uncritical empiricism and psychologism with which semiology broke, mediology is just as resolved to dispel the cult or illusion of the signifier as the be-all-and-end-all, slough off the scholasticism of the code, and recover the worldâ€”in all its mediatized materiality. In this enterprise its ally is the work of French historians of mentalitÃ©s, of the hard and evolutionary sciences, and of the technologies of transmission (from stylus and clay to quill and parchment to press and paper to mouse and screen).

Written with Debrayâ€™s customary brio, Media ManifestosÂ is no mere contribution to the vogue of â€œmedia studies.â€ It remains steeped in the intellectual culture of Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault, indebted to the neolithic anthropology of Leroi-Gourhan and the study of science and technology of Serres and Latour, informed by the material histories of the AnnalesÂ school, yet plugged into the audiovisual culture of todayâ€™s â€œvideosphereâ€ (as against the printerly â€œgraphosphereâ€ of yesterday, and the scriptorly â€œlogosphereâ€ of the day before that). Debrayâ€™s work turns a neologism (â€œmediologyâ€) into a tool-kit with which to rethink the whole business of mediation from the city-state to the internet.Â
Country USA
Brand Verso
Manufacturer Verso Books
Binding Paperback
Color Brown
ReleaseDate 1996-04-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781859840870

Country	USA
Brand	Verso
Manufacturer	Verso Books
Binding	Paperback
Color	Brown
ReleaseDate	1996-04-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781859840870

Media Manifestos: On the Technological Transmission of Cultural Forms

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