Communication Matters Materialist Approaches to Media, Mobility and Networks [Paperback]

Communication has often been understood as a realm of immaterial, insubstantial phenomenaimages, messages, thoughts, languages, cultures, and ideologiesmediating our embodied experience of the concrete world. Communication Matterschallenges this view, assembling leading scholars in the fields of Communication, Rhetoric, and English to focus on the materiality of communication. Building on the work of materialist theorists such as Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Friedrich Kittler, and Henri Lefebvre, the essays collected here examine the materiality of discourse itself and the constitutive force of communication in the production of the real.

Communication Matterspresents original work that rethinks communication as material and situates materialist approaches to communication within the broader materiality turn emerging in the humanities and social sciences.

This collection will be of interest to researchers and postgraduate students in Media, Communication Studies, and Rhetoric.

The book includes images of the digital media installations of Francesca Talenti, Professor, Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Part I Orientations Media/MaterialityIntroduction The Materiality of Communication, Jeremy Packer and Stephen B. Crofts Wiley  Chapter 1. Media, Materiality, and the Human: A Conversation with N. Katherine Hayles, N. Katherine Hayles  Chapter 2. Becoming Mollusk: A conversation with John Durham Peters about Media, Materiality, and Matters of History, John Durham Peters  Part II Communication Time/Space  Chapter 3. Ubiquitous Sensibility, Marc Hansen  Chapter 4. It Changes Space and Time! Introlc$