Transmitting Culture

Informationen zum Autor Régis Debray. Translated by Eric Rauth Klappentext How do we explain the fact that certain ideas! at certain moments in time! can have earthshaking effects? Or that some cultures have left an indelible mark while others have not? Why did Jesus! rather than Mani the Mesopotamian or the Eastern god Mithra! take hold among masses of people? Why did Karl Marx instead of Pierre Proudhon or Auguste Comte leave his mark on the century? Behind these questions lies the matter of the human need to conserve! hand down! and transmit cultural meanings -- the study of the means of transmission and of the long evolutionary history of media. In a departure! Régis Debray redefines communication as the inescapable conditioning of civilization's meanings and messages by their technologies of transmission and lays the groundwork for a science of the transmission of cultural forms -- in a word! mediology. Transmitting Culture examines the difference between communication and transmission and argues that ideas and their legacies should be rethought not in terms of "communication" from sender to receiver but of "mediation" by the vectors and messengers of meaning. Transmitting Culture stresses the technologies and institutions long overlooked by philosophy and the human sciences in the study of symbols and signs throughout the history of civilizations. Ranging widely from the history of religion and the printing press to the French and industrial revolutions! from the role and place of authority to scientific inquiry! Transmitting Culture establishes a new approach to the cultural history of communication. Zusammenfassung An examination of the difference between communication and transmission that stresses technologies and institutions long overlooked in the study of symbols and signs throughout the history of civilizations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword1. The Medium's Two BodiesThe Material DimensionThe Diachronic DimensionThe Political DimensionThe Mechanics of TransmissionCircumscribing a DisciplineOrganized Matter and Materialized OrganizationNetworks and TerritoriesChristianity's Mediology2. Crossroads or Double Helix?The Two LinesThe Tragedy of Transmission3. The Exact Science of AngelsA Venerable ProtomediologyGo-BetweensAngels! Present!Mediabolics4. Fault LinesThe Seismic ZoneInterdependenciesDemarcation5. Tool LinesEthnos contra TechnicsRetrograde ProgressMan's Proper Study6. Disciplinary ImperialismsThe Risks of "All-Socio"The Risks of "All-Bio"7. Ways of DoingDecenteringMaterializingDynamizingA Disciplinary ProvisoAgainst the Stream ...

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: R?gis Debray, Regis Debray, Régis Debray, Rgis Debray, R'Gis Debray, Rigis Debray
• Collaboration: Eric Rauth (Traduction), Rauth Eric (Traduction)
• Edition: Columbia University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 19.05.2004
• EAN: 9780231113458
• ISBN: 978-0-231-11345-8
• Pages: 224
• Thèmes: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism; European Perspectives: A Serie; European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism; European Perspectives: A Socia
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Philosophie: de l'Antiquité à nos jours; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Médias, communication > Sciences de la communication; Cultural Studies, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Communication Studies, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -