Proposes a new theory of communication called "comparative media theory."
Primal Scenes of Communication argues that the materiality of communication media constitute social relations and that social relations should be understood as "technology-identity complexes." This theory is employed to characterize consumer society, and the social movements that criticize consumer society, as a unique epoch of communication.
| ISBN: | 9780791446669 |
| Publication date: | 25th September 2000 |
| Author: | Ian H Angus |
| Publisher: | SUNY Press an imprint of State University of New York Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 214 pages |
| Series: | SUNY Series in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences |
| Genres: |
Popular culture Social and political philosophy |