In contemporary debates, communication is variously invoked as a panacea for the problems of both democracy and love, as a dream of a new information society brought about by new technologies, and as a wistful ideal of human relations. How, and why, did communication come to shoulder the load it carries? In John Durham Peters's work, the teachings of Socrates and Jesus, the theology of Saint Augustine, the political philosophy of Locke, and the American tradition from Emerson through William James all become relevant for understanding communication in our age. Peters finds that thinkers across the centuries have struggled with the same questions - how we can hope for contact with others, what has become of human beings in increasingly technological times, how new modes of communication have altered the ways the world is imagined and how we relate to others - and he weaves intellectual history and communications history together. The book traces the yearning for contact not only through philosophy and literature but also by exploring the cultural reception of communication technologies from the telegraph to the radio. The history of communication, Peters shows, is not a triumphant progress toward global harmony but rather a collection of uncanny devices that conjure angels, spirits and alien intelligences. His is an account of a complex concept that has both shaped us and been shaped by us.
读完彼得斯的《交流的无奈》,我紧接着开始读波兹曼的《娱乐至死》。不幸的是,彼得斯所提倡的相互爱护,公正而宽厚的彼此相待的人与人相处之道,在波兹曼笔下的现代世界几乎是不可能实现了。 交流不是可不可以的问题,不是如何能更顺畅自如的问题,更不是时间和技术的问题,...
评分我承认这本书肯定非常难以翻译,各种双关、同音异义、头韵、尾韵…译者下了很大功夫,译者序写得很好,译者注也很棒。 但是不得不吐槽一下,为什么同一个英文专业术语前后翻译不一样,看得很头疼啊,比如:strangeness前面翻译为奇异性,后面翻译为陌生性(我觉得是陌生化的意...
评分今天读书的时候突然意识到这样一个问题:唯物主义的政治教育和现代生活的飞速变迁让我们越来越习惯于接受变化而放弃对其合理性和存在价值的质疑。“科技是第一生产力”的解说把所有的创新归功于科技进步,却忽视了人本身。以前曾偏爱一句格言,大约是要我们目光坚定、内心...
评分读完彼得斯的《交流的无奈》,我紧接着开始读波兹曼的《娱乐至死》。不幸的是,彼得斯所提倡的相互爱护,公正而宽厚的彼此相待的人与人相处之道,在波兹曼笔下的现代世界几乎是不可能实现了。 交流不是可不可以的问题,不是如何能更顺畅自如的问题,更不是时间和技术的问题,...
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评分去年這個時候在看中文版,筆記記了一大本,久違的求知若渴的感覺。因為這本書找到了自己感興趣的方向,所以感覺看完這本比在新聞學院上四年課的收穫都要多(要不怎麼能意識到傳播學並不只是貴院整的市場營銷政治傳播呢)。這幾天寫論文又把英文版買來重讀,還能讀出新奇感和收穫感。不過可能我也只是在企圖將傳播學往哲學上靠以獲得「我也搞嚴肅學術」之感吧⋯⋯
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