Sublime Communication Technologies - Hardcover

Giblett, Rod

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 023053743X ISBN 13: 9780230537439

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

'An engagement with the history of the future immediately aligns [this] book and its project with the wider issues of our time: interdisciplinarity, ecological responsibility, and environmental sustainability. This is a book with a global agenda... rich, stimulating and rewarding' - Lelia Green, Australian Journal of Communication
 
'Sublime Communication Technologies is a lively read and a useful contribution to theorising media, space and body and bringing together a range of diverse theorists and "-ospheres" examples.' - Mark Balnaves, Media International Australia
 
'This is a trenchantly argued and important book whose arguments deserve to be widely read and taken very seriously. Giblett convincingly shows his readers that if we unthinkingly take for granted what might be at stake in the existence of modern communications technologies we are likely to overlook some of the most important political, social, and intellectual challenges posed by recent history and by the contemporary world.' - Ian James, University of Cambridge, UK

Book Description:

A lively look at communication technologies from railways and telegraph to the mobile video phone  - a critical cultural history

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 023053743X
• ISBN 13: 9780230537439
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232