Title: Gramophone, film, typewriter
Description: "Part technological history of the emergent new media in the late nineteenth century, past theoretical discussion of the responses to these media - including texts by Rilke, Kafka, and Heidegger, as well as elaborations by Edison, Bell, Turing, and other innovators - Gramphone, Film, Typewriter analyzes this momentous shift using insights from the work of Foucault, Lacan, and McLuhan. Fusing discourse analysis, structuralist psychoanalysis, and media theory, and the author adds a vital historical dimension to the current debates over the relationship between electronic literacy and poststructuralism, and the extent to which we are constituted by our technologies."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Communication, Communication and technology, History, Communication--history, Communication--history--19th century, Communication--history--20th century, P96.t42 k5713 1999, 302.2
Time periods: 19th century, 20th century