Sublime Communication TechnologiesPalgrave Macmillan UK, 17. jan. 2008 - 218 sider 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. |
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Communication and | 1 |
Steam Railways | 19 |
Electrical Telegraphy | 37 |
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