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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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Recursions
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Physical Description:1 online resource (342 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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