Medium, Messenger, Transmission
Sybille Krämer
- Title
- Medium, Messenger, Transmission
- Subtitle
- An Approach to Media Philosophy
- Author
- Sybille Krämer
- ISBN
- 9789048524990
- Format
- eBook PDF
- Number of pages
- 270
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 24 - 03 - 2015
- Open Access
- Download on Open Access Platform
- Series
- Recursions
- Category
- Media Studies
- Discipline
- Film, Media, and Communication
- Also available as
- Hardback - € 99,00
Sybille Krämer
Medium, Messenger, Transmission
An Approach to Media Philosophy
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.
Author
Sybille Krämer
Dr. Sybille Krämer is professor of theoretical philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin. She is the author of six books: Technik, Gesellschaft und Natur: Versuch über ihren Zusammenhang (1982), Symbolische Maschinen: Die Idee der Formalisierung in geschichtlichem Abriss (1988), Berechenbare Vernunft: Kalkül und Rationalismus im 17. Jahrhundert (1991), Sprache, Sprechakt, Kommunikation: Sprachtheoretische Positionen des 20. Jahrhunderts (2001), Gewalt der Sprache - Sprache der Gewalt (2005), and Medium, Bote, Übertragung: Kleine Metaphysik der Medialität (2008).
