Sacred Channels: The Archaic Illusion Of Communication Paperback

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Erich Horl

Media theory - anthropology - the holy - communication history - cybernetics

9789089647702

English

Amsterdam University Press

01 Oct 2018

344

Erich H rl is Full Professor of Media Culture at Leuphana University of Lueneburg, Germany and director of the focus "Rethinking the technological condition" of Leuphanas Digital Culture Research Lab. Before he was Associate Professor of Media Philosophy and Technology at Ruhr-University Bochum. He is the founder of the Bochum Colloquium Mediastudies (bkm), an internationally renown series of diagnostical interventions concerning our contemporary techno-medial situation. He currently works on a General Ecology of Media and Technology.

H Rl's Project is Ambitious And Original, Offering an Intellectual History Which Readers Are Unlikely to Have Realised They Were Missing And Which Intervenes Simultaneously Into Media Theory, Anthropology, Philosophy And The History of computation. - Megan Wiessner, Radical Philosophy 2.06 (Winter 2019)[-][-]"Erich H Rl's Sacred Channels is as Original And Innovative as They come. The Book Articulates an Archaeology of Modern Notions of The Sacred And The Primitive And Draws Upon a Wide-Ranging Theoretical Framework That Includes Philosophy (Phenomenology, Heidegger, And Deconstruction), Anthropology, Media Theory, And Breakthrough Developments in Modern science. The Substantial Preface by Jean-Luc Nancy, And The Excellent Translation by Nils. F. Schott, Make Sacred Channels (by Now a Classic in The German-Speaking World) a Groundbreaking Book Finally Available to an English-Speaking audience." - Michael Wutz, Weber State University