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Sublime Communication Technologies
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This lively new studyis a critical cultural history of communication technologies, from railways and telegraphy to computers and the Internet, in whichRod Giblett argues that these technologiesplay a pivotal role in the cultural history of modernity and its project of the sublime.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Flow Along a Channel:Communication and ItsTechnologies
- 2 Crude Conqueror of Nature: Steam Railways
- 3 Mind Over Matter: Electrical Telegraphy
- 4 Shooting the Event: The Camera is a Gun, Photography is a Shot
- 5 The Hell of Images: Cinema Paradiso
- 6 Magician's Bower and Monstrous Mechanical: The Car as Communication Technology
- 7 The Magical in The Modern: Ethereal Radio
- 8 Disciplinary and Flanerie: The Panopticon and Panorama of Television
- 9 Orbiting in the Sublime Company of Heavenly Bodies: Satellites from Cold War to Gulf War
- 10 The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace and the Slimy Swamps of War: Computers and the Internet
- 11 Blue Sky Mining: Spectrum and Space
- References
- Index