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.
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[在电脑里翻到的，上学期的课程作业] “只有当代人才会在面对面时担心如何‘交流’的问题，仿佛他们之间相距千里之遥。‘交流’是盘根错节的思想文化问题，它把时代的种种自我冲突编进了自己的代码之中。” 这是作者彼得斯写在序论里的话，提示我们在阅读此书中应当时刻带着“...
评分苏格拉底·耶稣·孔子 按：还有一个“述而不作”的先师：佛陀。只是我对他知之甚少，故也就不提他了。 根据时髦的见解，一个学人应当大胆而自由地创新。据说，创新是思想的生命力所在。又据说，创新的意思就是，在知识上没有任何藩篱，在思想上不受任何束缚。于是，学者们、...
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，...
评分 评分动物们变成爱人，爱人最后沦落为亲人们 我们只能在爱时候悲伤，在爱时候如丝般迷惘 快别让我 快别让我 快别让我颤抖 快对我说 快对我说 快对我说爱我 直到自由像海岸线一样，随潮汐冲散 什么都自然 ——苏打绿、许茹芸《爱人动物》歌词 ...
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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⋯⋯
评分草，难死了
评分在书店看到才发觉应该标读过……不就是大一下传播学理论的书嘛????
评分Communication is a registry of modern longings
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