Sacred Channels : : The Archaic Illusion of Communication / / Erich Hörl.
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 t...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016-2018 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Recursions
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (342 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- From Aristotle to Hörl -- 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 |
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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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9789048525607 9783110667318 9783110606720 9783110661521 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9789048525607?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Erich Hörl. |