[ecrea] New Book: Against Transmission

This post is to promote my new book /Against Transmission: Media 
Philosophy and the Engineering of Time, /which some people might like to 
purchase for their libraries. Here's the blurb:

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/Against Transmission/explores the relationship between time and the 
operability of media systems. It looks to the time-based problems solved 
by media inventors and engineers, particularly focussing on transduction 
as a key media philosophical theme, and makes an argument for the 
continued cultural effects of these events. Using examples from early 
television, chronophotography, the development of electronic computers 
and media art, it argues that cultural techniques of signal processing 
have been developed that now generate new temporal systems quite 
different from conventional historical time. It argues that these new 
temporal systems may be seen as characteristic of what has been referred 
to as the conditions for contemporaneity.

Here’s a link to the book on Bloomsbury’s 
website:<https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/against-transmission-9781474293099/>

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Here is a link to a preview of the book:

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And here are some nice things that Thomas Sutherland and Mark 
Coeckelbergh have said about the book:

“Impressive in both its historical breath and theoretical depth, 
/Against Transmission/

  offers a plausible and compelling defence of historical and 
philosophical studies of media. Challenging received wisdoms regarding 
our relationship to time, Barker foregrounds the temporal heterogeneity 
and multiplicity of contemporary media culture, emphasizing the mutual 
implication of mediation and time in the construction of contemporaneity.”

*Thomas Sutherland*, Lecturer in Media Studies, University of Lincoln, UK

“Drawing on media philosophy but also revealing and interpreting the 
technical ontologies of media such as database and electronic television 
next to artworks and events, Barker masterly and convincingly shows how 
the measurement and storage media of our time are not simply 
transmission devices but produce new temporal systems... /Against 
Transmission/

  makes an original and valuable contribution to thinking about media 
and technologies and is a must read for students and scholars interested 
in the phenomenology of new media, in philosophy of technology, in 
digital humanities, and indeed in better understanding our 
being-with-time today.”

*Mark Coeckelbergh*, Professor of Technology and Social Responsibility, 
De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

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