[Commlist] Action at a Distance - new book

*Action at a Distance***

*John Durham Peters, Florian Sprenger & Christina Vagt***

*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781517910099/action-at-a-distance/ 
<https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781517910099/action-at-a-distance/>_*

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How are human actions shaped by the materiality of media?

Contemporary media leads us more than ever to an ‘acting at a distance,’ 
an acting entangled with the materiality of communication and the 
mediality of transmission. This book explores this crucial phenomenon 
thereby introducing urgent questions of human interaction, the binding 
and breaking of time and space, and the entanglement of the material and 
the immaterial.

Three vivid inquiries deal with histories and theories of mediality and 
materiality: John Durham Peters looks at episodes of simultaneity and 
synchronization. Christina Vagt discusses the agency of computer models 
against the backdrop of aesthetic theories by Henri Bergson and Hans 
Blumenberg, and Florian Sprenger discusses early electrical 
transmissions through copper wire and the temporality of instantaneity.

*John Durham Peters*is Maria Rosa Menocal Professor of English and of 
Film and Media Studies at Yale University.

*Florian Sprenger*is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Goethe 
University Frankfurt.

*Christina Vagt* is Assistant Professor of European Media Studies at the 
University of California, Santa Barbara.


*University of Minnesota Press**| In Search of Media | June 2020 | 95pp 
| 9781517910099 | PB | £13.99**

*Price subject to change.

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