Horn, or the Counterside of Media (Paperback)

Language: English

Published by Duke University Press, North Carolina, 2022

1478017724 / 9781478017721

Series: Book 16 of 20 - Sign, Storage, Transmission

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Paperback. We regularly touch and handle media devices. At the same time, media devices such as body scanners, car seat pressure sensors, and smart phones scan and touch us. In Horn, Henning Schmidgen reflects on the bidirectional nature of touch and the ways in which surfaces constitute sites of mediation between interior and exterior. Schmidgen uses the concept of "horn"-whether manifested as a rhinoceros horn or a musical instrument-to stand for both natural substances and artificial objects as spaces of tactility. He enters into creative dialogue with artists, scientists, and philosophers, ranging from Salvador Dali, William Kentridge, and Rebecca Horn to Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, and Marshall McLuhan, who plumb the complex interplay between tactility and technological and biological surfaces. Whether analyzing how Dali conceived of images as tactile entities during his "rhinoceros phase" or examining the problem of tactility in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, Schmidgen reconfigures understandings of the dynamic phenomena of touch in media. Henning Schmidgen reflects on the dynamic phenomena of touch in media, analyzing works by artists, scientists, and philosophers ranging from Salvador Dali to Walter Benjamin, who each explore the interplay between tactility and technological and biological surfaces. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. …

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Title
Horn, or the Counterside of Media (Paperback)
Author
Henning Schmidgen
Publisher
Duke University Press, North Carolina
Publication year
2022
Condition
new
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
ISBN 10
1478017724
ISBN 13
9781478017721
Series
Book 16 of 20: Sign, Storage, Transmission

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