{"product_id":"action-at-a-distance-john-durham-peters-9781517910099","title":"Action at a Distance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow are human actions shaped by the materiality of media? \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003eThree 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Durham Peters, Florian Sprenger, Christina Vagt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1517910099\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517910099\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Meson Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/23\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 95\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.90h x 5.00w x 0.30d","brand":"John Durham Peters","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43941211177215,"sku":"9781517910099","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_5831d4e0-eabd-493f-80f6-aec1e2971b91.jpg?v=1681451574","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/action-at-a-distance-john-durham-peters-9781517910099","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}