Bergson and the Metaphysics of Media [electronic resource] /
Crocker, S.author.
What is a medium? Why is there always a middle? Can media produce 'immediacy'? Henri Bergson recognized mediation as the central philosophical problem of modernity. This book traces his influence on the 'media philosophies' of Gilles Deleuze, Marshall McLuhan, Walter Benjamin and Michel Serres.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
part I. Medium as means and obstacle -- part II. Killing time: Synchrony and diachrony -- part III. Man falls down: Unanswerable situations.
What is a medium? Why is there always a middle? Can media produce 'immediacy'? Henri Bergson recognized mediation as the central philosophical problem of modernity. This book traces his influence on the 'media philosophies' of Gilles Deleuze, Marshall McLuhan, Walter Benjamin and Michel Serres.
Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941.
Metaphysics.
Epistemology.
Movement (Philosophy).
Communication.
Phenomenology .
Critical theory.
Metaphysics.
Epistemology.
Philosophical Traditions.
Media Studies.
Phenomenology.
Critical Theory.