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The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media

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Description for The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 276 x 27. Weight in Grams: 594.
When we speak of clouds these days, it is as likely that we mean data clouds or network clouds as cumulus or stratus. In their sharing of the term, both kinds of clouds reveal an essential truth: that the natural world and the technological world are not so distinct. In The Marvelous Clouds, John Durham Peters argues that though we often think of media as environments, the reverse is just as true environments are media. Peters defines media expansively as elements that compose the human world. Drawing from ideas implicit in media philosophy, Peters argues that media are more than ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226421353
SKU
V9780226421353
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About John Durham
John Durham Peters is the A. Craig Baird Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Speaking into the Air and Courting the Abyss, both also published by the University of Chicago Press. He lives in Iowa City.

Reviews for The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media
More than fundamental. Media in this book are not defined as just more technological supplements to human beings but as a source that opens an extension for human self-knowledge. . . . Peters defines modern technologies as a space endowed with intelligence that seeks to be like God.
Dmytro Drozdovskyi, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine The book is, ... Read more

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