
Powers of Reading
From Plato to Audiobooks
Peter Szendy(Author)
Zone Books (Publisher)
Published on 11. March 2025
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-1-942130-96-3 (ISBN)
Description
"Reading, be it silent or loud, be it addressed to oneself or to another, is the site of entangled power relations: it is the micropolitics of the distribution of voices"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Trade binding
Illustrations
6 b/w illus.
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
480 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-942130-96-3 (9781942130963)
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03/2025
Zone Books
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Persons
Peter Szendy is the David Herlihy Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature at Brown University. His books include For an Ecology of Images; The Supermarket of the Visible: Toward a General Economy of Images; Of Stigmatology: Punctuation as Experience; and All Ears: The Aesthetics of Espionage.