Sublime Communication Technologies

This lively new study is a critical cultural history of communication technologies, from railways and telegraphy to computers and the internet, in which Rod Giblett argues that these technologies play a pivotal role in the cultural history of modernity and its project of the sublime.

Rod Giblett is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, School of Communications and Contemporary arts, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia.

Preface	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Flow Along a Channel: Communication and Its Technologies	p. 1
Crude Conqueror of Nature: Steam Railways	p. 19
Mind Over Matter: Electrical Telegraphy	p. 37
Shooting the Event: The Camera is a Gun, Photography is a Shot	p. 56
The Hell of Images: Cinema Paradiso	p. 74
Magician's Bower and Monstrous Mechanical: The Car as Communication Technology	p. 92
The Magical in The Modern: Ethereal Radio	p. 110
Disciplinary and Flanerie: The Panopticon and Panorama of Television	p. 128
Orbiting in the Sublime Company of Heavenly Bodies: Satellites from Cold War to Gulf War	p. 146
The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace and the Slimy Swamps of War: Computers and the Internet	p. 164
Blue Sky Mining: Spectrum and Space	p. 182
References	p. 200
Index	p. 216
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