The Metaphysics Of Media

Author : Peter K. Fallon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1589662024

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The Metaphysics of Media by Peter K. Fallon Pdf

"Why do we believe what we believe, and ignore what we don't believe? Why do we believe some things that have no foundation in reality, and refuse to believe in things that are firmly supported by scientific research? Why does it seem that many people believe in nothing at all? And does it matter what we believe, and how we came to that decisive point of belief or unbelief?" "Peter K. Fallon insists that neither the study nor the practice of ethics and metaphysics should be limited to professional academic philosophers and theologians. In The Metaphysics of Media Fallon takes a courageous stand against our hyper-mediated popular culture and the postmodern view of information as a salable commodity. He investigates how and why different media, through different historical eras, have engendered and supported certain concepts of reality - at the expense of others. He begins with a critical discussion of the essential idea of objective reality and truth. Fallon then unfolds the story of the evolution of communication through four major eras and the metaphysical foundation that underlies each era and concludes with a look at the troubling rise of mass ignorance in what we call (without a hint of irony) an "age of information.""--Résumé de l'éditeur.

Author : S. Crocker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137324504

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Bergson and the Metaphysics of Media by S. Crocker Pdf

What is a medium? Why is there always a middle? Can media produce 'immediacy'? Henri Bergson recognized mediation as the central philosophical problem of modernity. This book traces his influence on the 'media philosophies' of Gilles Deleuze, Marshall McLuhan, Walter Benjamin and Michel Serres.

Author : Juliet Floyd,James E. Katz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190463861

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Philosophy of Emerging Media by Juliet Floyd,James E. Katz Pdf

The term "emerging media" responds to the "big data" now available as a result of the larger role digital media play in everyday life, as well as the notion of "emergence" that has grown across the architecture of science and technology over the last two decades with increasing imbrication. The permeation of everyday life by emerging media is evident, ubiquitous, and destined to accelerate. No longer are images, institutions, social networks, thoughts, acts of communication, emotions and speech-the "media" by means of which we express ourselves in daily life-linked to clearly demarcated, stable entities and contexts. Instead, the loci of meaning within which these occur shift and evolve quickly, emerging in far-reaching ways we are only beginning to learn and bring about. This volume's purpose is to develop, broaden and spark future philosophical discussion of emerging media and their ways of shaping and reshaping the habitus within which everyday lives are to be understood. Drawing from the history of philosophy ideas of influential thinkers in the past, intellectual path makers on the contemporary scene offer new philosophical perspectives, laying the groundwork for future work in philosophy and in media studies. On diverse topics such as identity, agency, reality, mentality, time, aesthetics, representation, consciousness, materiality, emergence, and human nature, the questions addressed here consider the extent to which philosophy should or should not take us to be facing a fundamental transformation.

Author : Dominic Boyer
Publisher : Paradigm
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124030094

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Understanding Media by Dominic Boyer Pdf

Why do we understand media the way we do? In their simplest forms, media are means of communication and instruments of human creativity. But on another level, media are powerful technologies that govern how we think and act in the world, and they can even take on a sinister character, with media conglomerates working in opposition to freedom of information. Dominic Boyer grapples with these complexities in Understanding Media, where he questions what our different ways of engaging media actually tell us about media, how we relate to information, and about ourselves. Understanding Media explores, in a serious yet entertaining way, our common habits of thinking about the presence and significance of media in our lives. Offering analysis of the philosophical and social foundations of contemporary media theory as well as everyday strategies of knowing media, it addresses the advantages and limitations of different ways of understanding media. Finally, Boyer reflects on how we can know media better than we do.

Author : Robert Hassan,Thomas Sutherland
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781315515601

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Philosophy of Media by Robert Hassan,Thomas Sutherland Pdf

Since the late-1980s the rise of the Internet and the emergence of the Networked Society have led to a rapid and profound transformation of everyday life. Underpinning this revolution is the computer – a media technology that is capable of not only transforming itself, but almost every other machine and media process that humans have used throughout history. In Philosophy of Media, Hassan and Sutherland explore the philosophical and technological trajectory of media from Classical Greece until today, casting a new and revealing light upon the global media condition. Key topics include: the mediation of politics the question of objectivity automata and the metaphor of the machine analogue and digital technological determinism. Laid out in a clear and engaging format, Philosophy of Media provides an accessible and comprehensive exploration of the origins of the network society. It is essential reading for students of philosophy, media theory, politics, history and communication studies.

Author : Timothy Barker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474293112

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Against Transmission by Timothy Barker Pdf

In Against Transmission Barker rethinks the history of audio-visual media as a history of analytical instruments. Rather than viewing media history as the commonly told story of synthetic media (media that make a new whole from connecting separate parts), by focusing on the analytical function of mediation Against Transmission is able to focus on the way that media that have historically been used to count, measure and analyse experience still continue to provide the condition for contemporary life. By studying the engineering of transmission, transduction and storage through the prism of process philosophy, the book interrogates how the understanding of media-as-machine may offer new ways to describe a particular phenomenological relationship to the world, asking: what can the hardware of machines that segment information into very small elements tell us about experiences of time, memory and history? This book investigates the technical architecture of media such as television, computers, cameras, and cinematography. It achieves this through in-depth archive research into the history of the development of media technology, including innovative readings of key concepts from philosophers of media such as Harold A. Innis, Marshall McLuhan, Friedrich Kittler, Siegfried Zielinski and Wolfgang Ernst. Teaming philosophical inquiry with thorough technical and historical analysis, in a broad range of international case studies, from early experimental cinema and television to contemporary media art and innovative hardware developments, Barker shows how the technical discoveries made in these contexts have engineered the experiences of time in contemporary media culture.

Author : Edwards, Emily D.
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Culture in motion pictures
ISBN : 0809388464

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Metaphysical Media by Edwards, Emily D. Pdf

Author : Mark C. Taylor,Esa Saarinen
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0415103371

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Imagologies by Mark C. Taylor,Esa Saarinen Pdf

The authors propose a new philosophy of communication which reflects the media and technology of the "electronic age."

Author : Marshall McLuhan,Eric McLuhan
Publisher : Neopoiesis Press, LLC
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 0983274703

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Media and Formal Cause by Marshall McLuhan,Eric McLuhan Pdf

Reviews No one understood causality, whether Aristotelian or electric, like Marshall McLuhan. Now, in Media and Formal Cause, no one reveals understanding of formal cause in the digital environment better than McLuhan's protégé son, Eric. In the foreword, Lance Strate writes that M. McLuhan's Understanding Media was one of the most important books of the 20th century. For anyone who wishes to understand how things truly work, Media and Formal Cause is one of the most important books of the 21st. Arguably formal cause has been the least understood but the most intellectually important of all of Aristotle's four agents or processes of causation. This small volume proffers a large understanding of this formative, previously mysterious level of invisible creation. Three essays by Marshall (one with co-author Barry Nevitt) and a powerful new essay by Eric give new meaning to ye olde cliché, "like father, like son". While reading writing that is engaging, encyclopedic, and electric, we discover that formal cause is not what you think... but it is vital to how you think. -Thomas Cooper, Professor of Visual and Media Arts, Emerson College; author of Fast Media/Media Fast In Media and Formal Cause Eric McLuhan updates an important part of his father's work that is often overlooked, the quixotic role of causality in making sense of how new media change the way we construct our environment and our communication. How does novelty cause antiquity? When do effects precede causes? Read on, and you shall find out. -David Rothenberg, Professor of Philosophy and Music, New Jersey Institute of Technology; author of Why Birds Sing and Thousand Mile Song Like his mentor, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Marshall McLuhan was often accused of indulging in mere paradox. But Media and Formal Cause demonstrates the profound understanding that underlies the work of both Chesterton and McLuhan, the understanding that we live in a paradoxical world. Both McLuhan and Chesterton attempted to jar readers loose from what Cardinal Newman called "paper logic" into a recognition of the total situation in which we find ourselves. This very readable and accessible volume should greatly assist new readers of McLuhan and remind long time students of just how challenging and exhilarating his explorations were. -Philip Marchand, author, Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the Messenger A sage and perceptive quartet of essays which capture and extend a still quintessentially unique way of thinking about media, via patterns and connections that harken to the ancient world and redound to our present and future. -Paul Levinson, Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University; author of Digital McLuhan, and of New New Media

Author : Saint Thomas (Aquinas)
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015008026604

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Commentary on the Metaphysics of Aristotle by Saint Thomas (Aquinas) Pdf

Author : Sybille Krämer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Art
ISBN : 9462983089

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Medium, Messenger, Transmission by Sybille Krämer Pdf

Medium, Messenger, Transmission uses the figure of the messenger as a key metaphor for the function of all transmission media.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Metaphysics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105046720335

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The Metaphysics of Aristotle by Aristotle Pdf

Author : Yoni Van Den Eede,Stacey O'Neal Irwin,Galit Wellner
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498550154

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Postphenomenology and Media by Yoni Van Den Eede,Stacey O'Neal Irwin,Galit Wellner Pdf

Postphenomenology and Media: Essays on Human–Media–World Relations sheds light on how new, digital media are shaping humans and their world. It does so by using the postphenomenological framework to comprehensively study “human-media relations,” making use of conceptual instruments such as the transparency-opacity distinction, embodiment, multistability, variational analysis, and cultural hermeneutics. This collection outlines central issues of media and mediation theory that can be explored postphenomenologically and showcases research at the cutting edge of philosophy of media and technology. The contributors together enlarge the range of thinking about human-media-world relations in contemporary society, reflecting the interdisciplinary range of this school of thought, and explore, sometimes self-reflexively and sometimes critically, the provocative landscape of postphenomenology and media.

Author : David Gunkel,Paul A. Taylor
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745671925

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Heidegger and the Media by David Gunkel,Paul A. Taylor Pdf

The most significant philosopher of Being, Martin Heidegger has nevertheless largely been ignored within communications studies. This book sets the record straight by demonstrating the profound implications of his unique philosophical project for our understanding of today’s mediascape. The full range of Heidegger’s writing from Being and Time to his later essays is drawn upon. Topics covered include: - an analysis of Heidegger's theory of language and its relevance to communications studies - a critical interpretation of mass media and digital culture that draws upon Heidegger's key concept of Dasein - a discussion of mediated being and its objectifying tendencies - an assessment of Heidegger's legacy for future developments in media theory Clear explanations and accessible commentary are used to guide the reader through the work of a thinker whose notorious reputation belies the highly topical nature of his key insights. In a world full of digital networks and new social media, but little critical insight, Heidegger and the Mediashows how a true understanding of the media requires familiarity with Heidegger’s unique brand of thinking.

Author : Mark B. N. Hansen,Mark Boris Nicola Hansen
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 0262083213

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New Philosophy for New Media by Mark B. N. Hansen,Mark Boris Nicola Hansen Pdf

A philosophy of new media that defines the digitalimage as the process by which the body filters information tocreate images.