{"product_id":"against-transmission-timothy-barker-9781474293099","title":"Against Transmission: Media Philosophy and the Engineering of Time","description":"\u003ci\u003eAgainst Transmission\u003c\/i\u003e introduces the technical history and phenomenology of media, a field of study that explains the characteristics of contemporary life by looking to the technical properties of machines. By studying the engineering of signal processing, the book interrogates how the understanding of media-as-machine exposes us to a particular phenomenological relationship to the world, asking: what can the hardware of machines that segment information into very small elements tell us about experiences of time, memory and history?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book offers both a detailed and radical investigation of the technical architecture of media such as television, computers, cameras, and cinematography. It achieves this through in-depth archive research into the history of the development of media technology, combined with innovative readings of key concepts from philosophers of media such as Harold A. Innis, Marshall McLuhan, Friedrich Kittler, Siegfried Zielinski and Wolfgang Ernst.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTeaming philosophical inquiry with thorough technical and historical analysis, in a broad range of international case studies, from early experimental cinema and television to contemporary media art and innovative hardware developments, Barker shows how the technical discoveries made in these contexts have engineered the experiences of time in contemporary media culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Timothy Barker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474293093\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474293099\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Continnuum-3PL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/25\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.80d","brand":"Timothy Barker","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47425279721727,"sku":"9781474293099","price":160.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_de38bdc6-f580-4450-be45-1d88e2310568.jpg?v=1761538167","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/against-transmission-timothy-barker-9781474293099","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}