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Sublime communication technologies / Rod Giblett.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, c2008.Description: xiv, 218 p. : ill. 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780230537439 .
  • 9780230537439 .
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Partial contents:
Flows along a channel: communication and its technologies -- Crude conqueror of nature: steam railways -- Mind over matter: electrical telegraphy -- Shooting the event: the camera is a gun, photography is a shot -- The hell of images: cinema paradiso -- Magician's bower and monstrous mechanical: the car as communication technology -- The magical in the modern: ethereal radio -- Disciplinary and flânerie: the panopticon and panorama of television -- Orbiting in the sublime company of heavenly bodies: satellites from Cold War to Gulf War -- The pearly gates of cyberspace and the slimy swamps of war: computers and the internet -- Blue sky mining: spectrum and space
Summary: This lively look at communication technologies from railways and telegraph to the mobile video phone is a critical cultural history. Rod Giblett argues that these technologies play a pivotal role in the cultural history of modernity and its project of the sublime.
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Formerly CIP. Uk

Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-215) and index.

Flows along a channel: communication and its technologies -- Crude conqueror of nature: steam railways -- Mind over matter: electrical telegraphy -- Shooting the event: the camera is a gun, photography is a shot -- The hell of images: cinema paradiso -- Magician's bower and monstrous mechanical: the car as communication technology -- The magical in the modern: ethereal radio -- Disciplinary and flânerie: the panopticon and panorama of television -- Orbiting in the sublime company of heavenly bodies: satellites from Cold War to Gulf War -- The pearly gates of cyberspace and the slimy swamps of war: computers and the internet -- Blue sky mining: spectrum and space

This lively look at communication technologies from railways and telegraph to the mobile video phone is a critical cultural history. Rod Giblett argues that these technologies play a pivotal role in the cultural history of modernity and its project of the sublime.

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