Henning Schmidgen

Horn, or The Counterside of Media

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Sign, Storage, Transmission
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9781478017721
• ISBN-10: 1478017724
• Artikelnr.: 61330248

Autorenporträt

Henning Schmidgen is Professor of Media Studies at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and author of Bruno Latour in Pieces: An Intellectual Biography and The Helmholtz Curves: Tracing Lost Time.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface  vii
Introduction  1
1. The Captured Unicorn  13
2. Impressions of Modernity  49
3. Rhinoceros Cybernetics  88
4. A Surface Medium Par Excellence  148
5. Horn and Time  192
Conclusion  240
Notes  251
Bibliography  273
Index  293