Description
Book SynopsisAn examination of the difference between communication and transmission that stresses technologies and institutions long overlooked in the study of symbols and signs throughout the history of civilizations.
Trade ReviewRegis Debray's work on mediology has made him one of the most significant figures on the French intellectual scene in the past two decades, and this work is an important contribution to and distillation of this work. -- Keith Reader Modern & Contemporary France
Table of ContentsForeword 1. The Medium's Two Bodies The Material Dimension The Diachronic Dimension The Political Dimension The Mechanics of Transmission Circumscribing a Discipline Organized Matter and Materialized Organization Networks and Territories Christianity's Mediology 2. Crossroads or Double Helix? The Two Lines The Tragedy of Transmission 3. The Exact Science of Angels A Venerable Protomediology Go-Betweens Angels, Present! Mediabolics 4. Fault Lines The Seismic Zone Interdependencies Demarcation 5. Tool Lines Ethnos contra Technics Retrograde Progress Man's Proper Study 6. Disciplinary Imperialisms The Risks of "All-Socio" The Risks of "All-Bio" 7. Ways of Doing Decentering Materializing Dynamizing A Disciplinary Proviso Against the Stream
