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Action at a Distance
John Durham Peters (Author), Florian Sprenger (Author), Christina Vagt (Author)
9781517910099
Paperback / softback, published 23 June 2020
95 pages
17.8 x 12.7 x 1.3 cm, 0.666 kg
"An astute diagnosis and indispensable analysis."-International Journal of Communication
How are human actions shaped by the materiality of media? Three vivid inquiries deal with histories and theories of mediality and materiality: John Durham Peters looks at episodes of simultaneity and synchronization. Christina Vagt discusses the agency of computer models against the backdrop of aesthetic theories by Henri Bergson and Hans Blumenberg, and Florian Sprenger discusses early electrical transmissions through copper wire and the temporality of instantaneity.
Contemporary media leads us more than ever to an ‘acting at a distance,’ an acting entangled with the materiality of communication and the mediality of transmission. This book explores this crucial phenomenon thereby introducing urgent questions of human interaction, the binding and breaking of time and space, and the entanglement of the material and the immaterial.