Communication in modern social ordering : history and philosophy / Kai Eriksson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eriksson, Kai, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication--Political aspects--United States--History.

Communication.

Telecommunication--Political aspects--United States--History.

Telecommunication.

Telecommunication--Social aspects--United States--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Continuum, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Communication in Modern Social Ordering investigates the modern history of communication in relation to the thinking of the political community in the United States. By illustrating the intertwining of the technological developments in communication methods and its community-building effects, the different representations of society and their political implications are examined against the development of communication systems from the telegraph, to the telephone, to computer networks. It was the telegraph that made communication a continual process, thus freeing it from the rhythmical motion of the postal service and from physical transportation in general, and provided both a model and a mechanism of control. Using the theories of both Foucault and Heidegger to provide a lens for new investigation, the author studies not the meanings of communication and its logic as such but rather the conditions and structures that allow meanings and logic to be formulated in the first place. The book offers an original combination of historical analysis with an ontological discussion of the evolution of telecommunications in the U.S. as a phenomenon of modern social ordering."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Lightning Lines. 2.1 - Coming Unity ; 2.2 - The Nervous System

Chapter 3: The Speaking Machine. 3.1 - Taylored Systems ; 3.2 - Machines of Communication

Chapter 4: Logical Assemblages. 4.1 - Automating Communication ; 4.2 - Self-Regulating Systems

Chapter 5: Communication and Modernity

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-215) and index.

ISBN:

9786613174031

9781628927825

1628927828

9781283174039

1283174030

9781441145796

1441145796

OCLC:

745866131