Medium, messenger, transmission: an approach to media philosophy

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: The Media Philosophy of Sybille Krämer / Anthony Enns -- Prologue: Transmission and/or Understanding? On the 'Postal' and 'Erotic' Principles of Communication -- Methodological Considerations -- Is a Metaphysics of Mediality Possible? -- Introductions -- Walter Benjamin -- Jean-Luc Nancy -- Michel Serres -- Régis Debray: Mediological Materialism131 -- John Durham Peters -- The Messenger Model -- An Initial Summary -- The Messenger as a Topos -- Transmissions -- Angels: Communication through Hybrid Forms -- Viruses: Contagion through Transcription -- Money: The Transmission of Property through Desubstantiation -- Translation: Language Transmission as Complementation -- Psychoanalysis: Transmission through Affective Resonance179 -- Witnessing: On the Transmission of Perception and Knowledge through Credibility -- So What Does 'Transmission' Mean? -- Making Perceptible -- Reading Traces -- Test Case -- Maps, Charts, Cartography -- Epilogue: Worldview Dimensions, Ambivalences, Possible Directions for Further Research -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects

This rich study provides a comprehensive introduction to media philosophy while offering a new perspective on the concept and function of transmission media in all systems of exchange. Krämer uses the figure of the messenger as a key metaphor, examining a diverse range of transmission events, including the circulation of money, translation of languages, angelic visitations, spread of infectious diseases, and processes of transference and counter-transference that occur during psychoanalysis

This rich study provides a comprehensive introduction to media philosophy while offering a new perspective on the concept and function of transmission media in all systems of exchange. Krämer uses the figure of the messenger as a key metaphor, examining a diverse range of transmission events, including the circulation of money, translation of languages, angelic visitations, spread of infectious diseases, and processes of transference and counter-transference that occur during psychoanalysis. "'An interesting read, with an incorporated overview of media theory." - Ana Peraica, Leonardo Reviews

This rich study provides a comprehensive introduction to media philosophy while offering a new perspective on the concept and function of transmission media in all systems of exchange. Krämer uses the figure of the messenger as a key metaphor, examining a diverse range of transmission events, including the circulation of money, translation of languages, angelic visitations, spread of infectious diseases, and processes of transference and counter-transference that occur during psychoanalysis.