{"product_id":"horn-or-the-counterside-of-media-paperback","title":"Horn, or the Counterside of Media - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHenning Schmidgen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eNils F. Schott\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe regularly touch and handle media devices. At the same time, media devices such as body scanners, car seat pressure sensors, and smart phones scan and touch us. In \u003ci\u003eHorn\u003c\/i\u003e, Henning Schmidgen reflects on the bidirectional nature of touch and the ways in which surfaces constitute sites of mediation between interior and exterior. Schmidgen uses the concept of \"horn\"--whether manifested as a rhinoceros horn or a musical instrument--to stand for both natural substances and artificial objects as spaces of tactility. He enters into creative dialogue with artists, scientists, and philosophers, ranging from Salvador Dalí, William Kentridge, and Rebecca Horn to Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, and Marshall McLuhan, who plumb the complex interplay between tactility and technological and biological surfaces. Whether analyzing how Dalí conceived of images as tactile entities during his \"rhinoceros phase\" or examining the problem of tactility in Thomas Pynchon's \u003ci\u003eThe Crying of Lot 49\u003c\/i\u003e, Schmidgen reconfigures understandings of the dynamic phenomena of touch in media.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenning Schmidgen is Professor of Media Studies at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and author of \u003ci\u003eBruno Latour in Pieces: An Intellectual Biography\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Helmholtz Curves: Tracing Lost Time\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.67 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 21, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47459045867773,"sku":"9781478017721","price":53.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/aVRjY2xBbVhBVWhRZ0E4THdHQUlmZz09.webp?v=1777252922","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/horn-or-the-counterside-of-media-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}