
John Durham Peters' "Speaking into the Air"
Theory & Philosophy
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The Importance of Communication
In the time of simians and cyborgs, fetuses and the brain dead, angels and UFOs, primitives and smart machines, the dead and the distant, communication essentially has become that very field on which to sort out the place of the human. So he sees behind communication a kind of love, right? The basis of any kind of society is founded upon communication because there needs to be an association with people that is not just reducible to speech.
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