Research Catalog

Title

Primal scenes of communication : communication, consumerism, and social movements / Ian Angus.

Author

Angus, Ian H.

Publication

Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2000.

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Details

Description

ix, 214 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Primal Scenes of Communication argues that the materiality of communication media constitute social relations and that social relations should be understood as "technology-identity complexes." This theory is employed to characterize consumer society, and the social movements that criticize consumer society, as a unique epoch of communication."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences

Uniform Title

SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences

Subject

• Communication > Philosophy
• Communication > Social aspects
• Social movements
• social movements
• Communication > Philosophy
• Communication > Social aspects
• Social movements
• Konsumgesellschaft
• Kommunikation
• Communicatie
• Filosofische aspecten
• Sociale aspecten
• Sociale bewegingen

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-210) and index.

Contents

Language and Institution in the Human Sciences -- The Materiality of Expressive Forms -- Medium of Communication -- Comparative Media Theory -- Technology and Social Identity -- Phenomenology of Communication -- Loss of Mediation in Consumer Society -- From Competitive Capitalism to Consumer Society -- Reduction of Culture to Information -- Representation versus Constitution -- Consumer Identities -- Social Movements -- Three Strategies of Resistance -- New Mediations -- Discourse and Identity.

ISBN

• 0791446654
• 9780791446652
• 0791446662
• 9780791446669

LCCN

99054268

OCLC

• ocm42717934
• 42717934
• SCSB-1140222

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library