[Commlist] Horn, or The Counterside of Media

We would like to announce a new publication from Duke University Press, 
which we hope will be of interest.

*Horn, or The Counterside of Media***

*Henning Schmidgen
Translated by Nils F. Schott***

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We regularly touch and handle media devices. At the same time, media 
devices such as body scanners, car seat pressure sensors, and smart 
phones scan and touch us. In /Horn/, Henning Schmidgen reflects on the 
bidirectional nature of touch and the ways in which surfaces constitute 
sites of mediation between interior and exterior. Schmidgen uses the 
concept of "horn"—whether manifested as a rhinoceros horn or a musical 
instrument—to stand for both natural substances and artificial objects 
as spaces of tactility. He enters into creative dialogue with artists, 
scientists, and philosophers, ranging from Salvador Dalí, William 
Kentridge, and Rebecca Horn to Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, and 
Marshall McLuhan, who plumb the complex interplay between tactility and 
technological and biological surfaces. Whether analyzing how Dalí 
conceived of images as tactile entities during his “rhinoceros phase” or 
examining the problem of tactility in Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 
49, Schmidgen reconfigures understandings of the dynamic phenomena of 
touch in media.

*Henning Schmidgen*is Professor of Media Studies at Bauhaus-Universität 
Weimar and author of /Bruno Latour in Pieces: An Intellectual 
Biography/and /The Helmholtz Curves: Tracing Lost Time/.



*Duke University Press**| Sign, Storage, Transmission | February 2022 | 
320pp | 9781478017721 | PB | £20.99**

*Price subject to change.

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