Medium, Messenger, Transmission / Sybille Krämer ; translated by Anthony Enns.

• VerfasserIn: Krämer, Sybille,
• TeilnehmendeR: Enns, Anthony,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, [2015]; ©[2015]
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English; German
• Series: Recursions: theories of media, materiality, and cultural techniques.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (271 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Medium, Bote, Übertragung.; Frontmatter --; Recursions: Editors' Introduction --; Table Of Contents --; Introduction: The Media Philosophy Of Sybille Krämer /; Prologue --; Methodological Considerations --; Introductions --; The Messenger Model --; Transmissions --; So What Does 'Transmission' Mean? --; Test Case --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index Of Names --; Index Of Subjects
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-259) and indexes.
• ISBN: 9048524997
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Sybille Krämer ; translated by Anthony Enns.

This book presents an innovative new way of thinking about transmission media: through the figure of the messenger as a key metaphor. It explores a strikingly diverse range of types of transmission, including the circulation of money, the translation of languages, angelic visitations, the spread of infectious disease, the transferences that occur in psychoanalysis, the act of bearing witness, and the development of cartography. In each case, Sybille Krämer uses the insight offered by the metaphor of the messenger to help explain and explore the field of media philosophy and the ways that mediation shapes our understanding of the world around us.