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Bergson and the metaphysics of media /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Bergson and the metaphysics of media // Stephen Crocker, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Author:	Crocker, Stephen,
Description:	1 online resource
Subject:	1900 - 1999 -
Subject:	Philosophy, French - 20th century. -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137324504
ISBN:	1137324503 (electronic bk.)

Bergson and the metaphysics of media /
Crocker, Stephen,1964-

Bergson and the metaphysics of media /Stephen Crocker, Memorial University of Newfoundland. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographical references.

Any Moment Whatever: Elaborating Bergson's Ideas -- PART I: THE MEDIUM AS MEANS AND OBSTACLE -- 1. Metaphysical Media: The Discreet and the Continuous in Deleuze and McLuhan -- 2. One or Many Planes: The Evolution of Intervals in Painting and Film -- 3. Sounds Complicated: Audition and `Three Dimensional Thought' -- 4. Noise is the Presence of the Medium -- PART II: KILLING TIME: SYNCHRONY AND DIACHRONY -- 5. Instrumental Reason and the War on Intervals -- 6. Distracted and Contemplative Time -- 7. Empty, Homogenous Time/Any Moment Whatever -- PART III: MAN FALLS DOWN: UNANSWERABLE SITUATIONS -- 8. Compromise Formations: Bergson's Vitalism -- 9. Unanswerable Situations -- 10. Interrupted Gestures -- Conclusion: On Failure and Wonder.

Any message requires a medium, but because media can be speeded up and made more efficient, we also regard them as obstacles in the way of more effective communication. Media are both means and hinderance and this leads to a number of important and difficult problems that cross the borders of media theory and philosophy: Can media produce immediacy?What must mediation be if it doesn't go away?Why is there is always a middle?Can the means be considered independently of the content that passes through them? This book follows the 'metaphysics of mediation' from the philosophy of Henri Bergson into a wide range of intellectual movements that he influenced, from radical forms of Catholicism and phenomenology to the media philosophies of Gilles Deleuze, Marshall McLuhan, Walter Benjamin and Michel Serres.

ISBN: 1137324503 (electronic bk.)

Source: 662415Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Personal Names:

953255
Bergson, Henri,
1859-1941.Subjects--Chronological Terms:

1900 - 1999
Subjects--Topical Terms:

555819
Philosophy, French
--20th century.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: B2430.B43 / C76 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 194

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