In this original study, Milne moves between close readings of letters, postcards and emails, and investigations of the material, technological infrastructures of these forms, to answer the question: How does presence function as an aesthetic and rhetorical strategy within networked communication practices? As her work reveals, the relation between old and new communication systems is more complex than allowed in much contemporary media theory.
Although the correspondents of letters, postcards and emails are not, usually, present to one another as they write and read their exchanges, this does not necessarily inhibit affective communication. Indeed, this study demonstrates how physical absence may, in some instances, provide correspondents with intense intimacy and a spiritual, almost telepathic, sense of the other’s presence. While corresponding by letter, postcard or email, readers construe an imaginary, incorporeal body for their correspondents that, in turn, reworks their interlocutor’s self-presentation. In this regard the fantasy of presence reveals a key paradox of cultural communication, namely that material signifiers can be used to produce the experience of incorporeal presence.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
Shipping:
US$ 18.64
From United Kingdom to U.S.A.
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 6666-TNFPD-9780415993289
Book Description hardback. Condition: New. Language: ENG. Seller Inventory # 9780415993289
Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # ABLIING23Feb2215580210348
Book Description Hardback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days. Seller Inventory # C9780415993289
Book Description Hardback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. Seller Inventory # B9780415993289
Book Description Condition: New. pp. 282. Seller Inventory # 26620495
Book Description HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000. Seller Inventory # L1-9780415993289
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 280 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # __0415993288
Book Description Gebunden. Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. In this original study, Milne moves between close readings of letters, postcards and emails, and investigations of the material, technological infrastructures of these forms, to answer the question: How does presence function as an aesthetic and rhetoric. Seller Inventory # 594680111
Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # I-9780415993289