20 century radio
20th century america
20th century broadcasting
20th century technology
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american broadcasting
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anticolonialism
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evolution of radio
existentialism
frantz fanon
history of broadcasting
history of radio
history of technology
influence of radio
jacques lacan
jeal paul sarte
marxism
media studies
philosophy and radio
politics
psychoanalysis
radio and politics
technology
technology and society
walter bejamin
Product details
- ISBN 9780520270497
- Weight: 499g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 07 Dec 2011
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In a wide-ranging, cross-cultural, and transhistorical assessment, John Mowitt examines radio's central place in the history of twentieth-century critical theory. A communication apparatus that was a founding technology of twentieth-century mass culture, radio drew the attention of theoretical and philosophical writers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Lacan, and Frantz Fanon, who used it as a means to disseminate their ideas. For others, such as Martin Heidegger, Theodor Adorno, and Raymond Williams, radio served as an object of urgent reflection. Mowitt considers how the radio came to matter, especially politically, to phenomenology, existentialism, Hegelian Marxism, anticolonialism, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies. The first systematic examination of the relationship between philosophy and radio, this provocative work also offers a fresh perspective on the role this technology plays today.
John Mowitt is Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. His previous books include Re-takes: Postcoloniality and Foreign Film Language and Percussion: Drumming, Beating, and Striking.
