Introduction: The Media Philosophy of Sybille Krämer
Anthony Enns
Prologue
Transmission and/or Understanding? On the ‘Postal’ and ‘Erotic’ Principles of Communication
Methodological Considerations
Is a Metaphysics of Mediality Possible?
Introductions
Walter Benjamin
Jean-Luc Nancy
Michel Serres
Régis Debray: Mediological Materialism
John Durham Peters
The Messenger Model
An Initial Summary
The Messenger as a Topos
Transmissions
Angels: Communication through Hybrid Forms
Viruses: Contagion through Transcription
Money: The Transmission of Property through Desubstantiation
Translation: Language Transmission as Complementation
Psychoanalysis: Transmission through Affective Resonance
Witnessing: On the Transmission of Perception and Knowledge through Credibility
So What Does ‘Transmission’ Mean?
Making Perceptible
Reading Traces
Test Case
Maps, Charts, Cartography
Epilogue
Worldview Dimensions, Ambivalences, Possible Directions for Further Research
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects