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  • PROMISCUOUS KNOWLEDGE
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    PROMISCUOUS KNOWLEDGE
    KENNETH CMIEL / JOHN DURHAM PETERS
    Sergey Brin, a cofounder of Google, once compared the perfect search engine to “the mind of God.” As the modern face of promiscuous knowledge, however, Google’s divine omniscience traffics in news, maps, weather, and porn indifferently. This book, begun by the late Kenneth Cmiel and completed by his close friend John Durham Peters, provides a genealogy of the information age fr...

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  • THE MARVELOUS CLOUDS
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    THE MARVELOUS CLOUDS
    JOHN DURHAM PETERS
    An expansive, wide-ranging exploration of the long, little-known prehistory of contemporary media When we speak of clouds these days, it is as likely that we mean data clouds or network clouds as cumulus or stratus. In their sharing of the term, both kinds of clouds reveal an essential truth: that the natural world and the technological world are not so distinct. In The Marvelo...

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  • SPEAKING INTO THE AIR
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    SPEAKING INTO THE AIR
    JOHN DURHAM PETERS
    Communication plays a vital and unique role in society-often blamed for problems when it breaks down and at the same time heralded as a panacea for human relations. A sweeping history of communication, Speaking Into the Air illuminates our expectations of communication as both historically specific and a fundamental knot in Western thought. "This is a most interesting and thoug...

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  • COURTING THE ABYSS
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    COURTING THE ABYSS
    JOHN DURHAM PETERS
    Courting the Abyss updates the philosophy of free expression for a world that is very different from the one in which it originated. The notion that a free society should allow Klansmen, neo-Nazis, sundry extremists, and pornographers to spread their doctrines as freely as everyone else has come increasingly under fire. At the same time, in the wake of 9/11, the Right and the L...

    $506.69

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