基本説明
A critical cultural history of communication technologies from railways and telegraphy to computers and the Internet.
Full Description
This lively new study is a critical cultural history of communication technologies, from railways and telegraphy to computers and the Internet, in which Rod Giblett argues that these technologies play a pivotal role in the cultural history of modernity and its project of the sublime.
Contents
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 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 References Index
