Radio
Essays in Bad Reception
In a wide-ranging, cross-cultural, and transhistorical assessment, John Mowitt examines radio's central place in the history of twentieth-century critical theory. A communication apparatus that was a founding technology of twentieth-century mass culture, radio drew the attention of theoretical and philosophical writers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Lacan, and Frantz Fanon, who used it as a means to disseminate their ideas. For others, such as Martin Heidegger, Theodor Adorno, and Raymond Williams, radio served as an object of urgent reflection. Mowitt considers how the radio came to matter, especially politically, to phen…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-520-95007-8
- EAN: 9780520950078
- Produktnummer: 21595998
- Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 248 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 270 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
John Mowitt is Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. His previous books include Re-takes: Postcoloniality and Foreign Film Language and Percussion: Drumming, Beating, and Striking.
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