
Invention of Communication
Armand Mattelart(Author)
University of Minnesota Press
Published on 15. November 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-0-8166-2697-7 (ISBN)
Description
A tour of the multiple usages and systems that each historic period puts forth in the name of communication. This genealogy maps the many means by which humans interact - from cataloguing others, to asserting power over them, to working together with them to build new forms of community. Included are topics such as the elaboration of warfare as a logistic; the rise of professional societies of propaganda and national propagation; the history of universal expositions and world fairs; the birth of documentary and film out of physiological investigations in the 19th century; the development of press and the popular novel; and the origins of American social science. The history runs from the circuits of exchange to the circulation of goods, people and messages, from the construction of railroads to the emergence of long-distance communication. The author brings a clarifying perspective to the ideologies and theories that accompany these transformations.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Minnesota
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 149 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8166-2697-7 (9780816626977)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Part I The society of flows: the paths of reason; the economy of circulation; the crossroads of evolution. Part II Utopias of the universal bond: the cult of the network; the temple of industry; the communitarian city. Part III The hierachization of the world; symbolic propagation; strategic thought. Part IV The measure of the individual: the protrayal of crowds; the pace of the human motor; the market of target groups. Epilogue: new organic totalities?