COMS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: New Media, Nuance Communications, Great Stink
5 Sep 2016
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Relationship between haunting and ghosts, and haunting in photographs. Peters argues for a dualism in the 19th-century, the rst time voices/ images are separated from the body image of the self, separate from the body. Media has the ability to traverse distances, similar to traversing death. Relationship between dialogues between people are too far, or too dead to speak to. A type of hermetical a way to think about communications. Distance and death have always been two great obstacles to love and two great stimulants of desire (hard to love long distance, hard to love the dead) no longer the person to push you to love them. Eros: desire isn"t about possession, but rather about wanting. The idea is less about possession but more about getting close to the other person. Problem of desire why do people do what they do, why do people want what they want eros as a way to think about media exchange.
