John Durham Peters' "Speaking into the Air"
Theory & Philosophy
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The History of Communication
In the history of communication, Plato didn't much like writing. He saw writing as a kind of hindrance on reason and that in Plato's writing, Socrates feared that writing would parody lived presence. Now Derrida's critique of this is that, you know, philosophy is fraught with examples of an appreciation of presence over distance or over the written word which he dismantles systematically.
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