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Sublime communication technologies

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Sublime communication technologies/ Rod Giblett.
Author:	Giblett, Rodney James.
Published:	Basingstoke [England] ;Palgrave Macmillan, : 2008.,
Description:	xiv, 218 p. :ill. :
Subject:	Communication and technology. -
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230584020

Sublime communication technologies
Giblett, Rodney James.

Sublime communication technologies[electronic resource] /Rod Giblett. - Basingstoke [England] ;Palgrave Macmillan,2008. - xiv, 218 p. :ill.

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

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Flow 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 -- Disciplinaryand Fâlnerie: The Panopticon and Panorama of Television -- Orbiting inthe Sublime Company of Heavenly Bodies: Satellites from Cold War to Gulf War -- The Pearly Gates ofCyberspace and the Slimy Swamps of War: Computers and the Internet -- Blue Sky Mining: Spectrum andSpace -- References -- Index --.

Sublime Communication Technologies is a critical cultural history ofcommunication technologies, from railways and telegraphy to computers and the Internet. These technologies are sublime in thesense that theycarry information above the earth, transforming the solidities of pre-capitalist social formations into thin air. They play a pivotal role inthe cultural history of modernity. In this lively new study, Rod Giblett proposes a shift from a mythology of communication technologies involving command and control to one promoting commonality and community. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary and historical sources, it is the first book to assemble into a single overall account the scattered work of Walter Benjamin, Paul Virilio and Raymond Williams on this crucial area of culturaldebate.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230584020

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230584020doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

91462
Communication and technology.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

96803
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: P96.T42 / G53 2008eb

Dewey Class. No.: 303.48/33

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