ISBN:
9781478011477
,
9781478010463
Language:
English
Pages:
xi, 296 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Sign, storage, transmission
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Ma, Shaoling, - 1980- The stone and the wireless
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Ma, Shaoling The Stone and the Wireless
DDC:
302.23095
Keywords:
Mass media and culture
;
Mass media Semiotics
;
Mass media Political aspects
;
Mass media History 20th century
;
Popular culture History 20th century
;
Technological innovations Social aspects
;
China
;
Medien
;
Medialisierung
;
Massenmedien
;
Medienarchäologie
;
Technischer Fortschritt
;
Geschichte 1861-1906
Abstract:
"The Stone and the Wireless redefines the concept of media to animate the dynamic relations between technics and signification, history and theory, and science and culture in turn-of-the-twentieth century China. Analyzing diplomatic diaries, early science fiction, political and social treatises, the popular press, lithography, photography, and telegrams, Shaoling Ma argues that media do not mediate between this and that entity before first mediating between some version of its already mediated form as discursive representations in texts and images, and the apparently unmediated technical device or process. Insofar as any media history must acknowledge that its very sources are themselves media documents, this book is at its heart a challenge to the epistemological divides between technics and signification, history and theory, science and culture"--
Abstract:
Inhaltsverzeichnis: Guo Songtao's phonograph: the politics and aesthetics of real and imagined media -- Stone, copy, medium: "tidbits of writing" and "official documents" in New story of the stone (1905-1906) -- Lyrical media: technology, sentimentality, and bad models of the feeling woman -- 1900: infrastructural emergencies of telegraphic proportions -- A medium to end all media: "New tales of Mr. Braggadocio" and the social brain of industry and intellect.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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