Speaking into the air: a history of the idea of communication/
John Durham Peters.
- Chicago: The university of Chicago press, 2000.
- 293p.
Introduction: The Problem of Communication The Historicity of Communication The Varied Senses of "Communication" Sorting Theoretical Debates in (and via) the 1920s Technical and Therapeutic Discourses after World War II 1. Dialogue and Dissemination Dialogue and Eros in the Phaedrus Dissemination in the Synoptic Gospels 2. History of an Error: The Spiritualist Tradition Christian Sources From Matter to Mind: "Communication" in the Seventeenth Century Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism 3. Toward a More Robust Vision of Spirit: Hegel, Marx, and Kierkegaard Hegel on Recognition Marx (versus Locke) on Money Kierkegaard's Incognitos 4. Phantasms of the Living, Dialogues with the Dead Recording and Transmission Hermeneutics as Communication with the Dead Dead Letters 5. The Quest for Authentic Connection, or Bridging the Chasm The Interpersonal Walls of Idealism Fraud or Contact? James on Psychical Research Reach Out and Touch Someone: The Telephonic Uncanny Radio: Broadcasting as Dissemination (and Dialogue) 6. Machines, Animals, and Aliens: Horizons of Incommunicability The Turing Test and the Insuperability of Eros Animals and Empathy with the Inhuman Communication with Aliens Conclusion: A Squeeze of the Hand The Gaps of Which Communication Is Made The Privilege of the Receiver The Dark Side of Communication The Irreducibility of Touch and Time
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