Sublime communication technologies

• Main Author: Giblett, Rodney James.
• Corporate Author: Palgrave Connect (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
• Subjects: Communication and technology.; COMPUTERS > Information Technology.; Electronic books.
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Sublime Communication Technologies is a critical cultural history of communication technologies, from railways and telegraphy to computers and the Internet. These technologies are sublime in the sense that they carry information above the earth, transforming the solidities of pre-capitalist social f...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Flow along a Channel: Communication and its Technologies
• Crude Conqueror of Nature: Steam Railways
• Mind over Matter: Electrical Telegraphy
• Shooting the Event: The Camera is a Gun, Photography is a Shot
• The Hell of Images: Cinema Paradiso
• Magician's Bower and Monstrous Mechanical: The Car as Communication Technology
• The Magical in the Modern: Ethereal Radio
• Disciplinary and Fĺnerie: The Panopticon and Panorama of Television
• Orbiting in the Sublime Company of Heavenly Bodies: Satellites from Cold War to Gulf War
• The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace and the Slimy Swamps of War: Computers and the Internet
• Blue Sky Mining: Spectrum and Space
• References
• Index.