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1 online resource |
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Meaning systems |
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Meaning systems.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Cultural techniques, or, The end of the intellectual postwar in German media theory -- 1. Cacography or Communication? Cultural techniques of sign-signal-distinction -- 2. Eating animals-eating God-eating man : variations on the Last Supper, or, The cultural techniques of communion -- 3. Parlêtres: The cultural techniques of anthropological difference -- 4. Medusas of the western Pacific: The cultural techniques of seafaring -- 5. Pasajeros a Indias: Registers and biographical writing as cultural techniques of subject constitution (Spain, 16th century) -- 6. (Not) in Place: The grid, or, cultural techniques of ruling spaces -- 7. White spots and hearts of darkness: Drafting, projecting and designing as cultural techniques -- 8. Waterlines : striated and smooth spaces as techniques of ship design -- 9. Figures of self-reference : a media genealogy of the trompe-l'Doeil in 17th-century Dutch still life -- 10. Door Logic, or, The materiality of the symbolic : From cultural techniques to cybernetic machines |
| Summary |
"This volume designates a shift within posthumanistic media studies, that dissolves the concept of media into a network of operations, that reproduce, process and reflect the distinctions that are fundamental for a given culture, e.g. the anthropological difference, the distinctions between natural object and cultural sign, noise and information, eye and gaze"-- Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
Cultural Techniques |
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Posthumanities |
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anthropological difference |
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communion |
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doors |
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eating rituals |
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evil eye |
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gaze |
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graphic operations |
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grid |
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materialities of communication |
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media |
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practices |
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ship design |
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subject constitution |
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trompe-l'oeil |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Mass media and culture.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
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SCIENCE -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
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Mass media and culture.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Winthrop-Young, Geoffrey, 1960- translator.
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| ISBN |
9780823263783 |
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0823263789 |
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9780823264179 |
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0823264173 |
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