John Durham Peters' "Speaking into the Air"
Theory & Philosophy
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Theodore Dorno's Strategies for Restoring Massness
Theodore Dorno was suspicious of any attempt to expand the humans symbolically or technically. For him, no auxiliary organs as Freud called media could heal the body's displacement in mass communication. They were at best clumsy prostheses to restore a bodily wholeness that may never have existed. So these are just strategies employees employed.
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