Against Transmission - Grand Format

Against Transmission provides an original and radical interrogation of the understanding of media-as-machine asking : what can the hardware of machines that segment information into very small elements tell us about experiences of time, memory and history ? This book is both a detailed investigation of the technical architecture of media such as television, computers, cameras, and cinematography and an in-depth archive research into the history of the development of media technology, combined with innovative readings of key concepts from philosophers of media such as Harold A.
Innis, Marshall McLuhan, Friedrich Kittler, Siegfried Zielinski and Wolfgang Ernst.