Bergson and the Metaphysics of Media
by
S. Crocker
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
113732449X
ISBN-13
9781137324498
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 18th, 2013
Print length
185 Pages
Weight
360 grams
Dimensions
22.30 x 13.90 x 1.60 cms
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Western philosophy, from c 1900 -Cultural studiesCultural studiesWestern philosophy from c 1800
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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.
Any message requires a medium, but because media can be speeded up and made more efficient, we also regard them as obstacles in the way of more effective communication. Media are both means and hinderance and this leads to a number of important and difficult problems that cross the borders of media theory and philosophy:
This book follows the ''metaphysics of mediation'' from the philosophy of Henri Bergson into a wide range of intellectual movements that he influenced, from radical forms of Catholicism and phenomenology to the media philosophies of Gilles Deleuze, Marshall McLuhan, Walter Benjamin and Michel Serres.
- Can media produce immediacy?
- What must mediation be if it doesn''t go away?
- Why is there is always a middle?
- Can the means be considered independently of the content that passes through them?
This book follows the ''metaphysics of mediation'' from the philosophy of Henri Bergson into a wide range of intellectual movements that he influenced, from radical forms of Catholicism and phenomenology to the media philosophies of Gilles Deleuze, Marshall McLuhan, Walter Benjamin and Michel Serres.
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