Anthropology and the New Technologies of Communication Export

@article{citeulike:804327, abstract = {This article is a set of reflections on how a modern linguistic ideology of communication produces a fundamental misrecognition of the formation of the modern liberal subject as a naturally communicating subject. I explore the complex features of this misrecognition as a legacy of Cold War procedures of knowledge production about communication and technology to suggest that ethnographies of new technologies of communication unwittingly proliferate presumptions about the ontological integrity of the human prior to communication and prior to the advent of technologies of communication. This dilemma offers an alternative point of departure for the study of new technologies of communication in pursuit of a renewed, critical investigation into the circulation of modern cultural forms of intelligibility.}, author = {Axel, Brian K.}, citeulike-article-id = {804327}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/can.2006.21.3.354}, doi = {10.1525/can.2006.21.3.354}, journal = {Cultural Anthropology}, keywords = {anthropology, media, mediaecology}, number = {3}, pages = {354--384}, posted-at = {2006-08-17 17:01:28}, priority = {5}, title = {Anthropology and the New Technologies of Communication}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/can.2006.21.3.354}, volume = {21}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:804327 L3 - citeulike-article-id:804327 N2 - This article is a set of reflections on how a modern linguistic ideology of communication produces a fundamental misrecognition of the formation of the modern liberal subject as a naturally communicating subject. I explore the complex features of this misrecognition as a legacy of Cold War procedures of knowledge production about communication and technology to suggest that ethnographies of new technologies of communication unwittingly proliferate presumptions about the ontological integrity of the human prior to communication and prior to the advent of technologies of communication. This dilemma offers an alternative point of departure for the study of new technologies of communication in pursuit of a renewed, critical investigation into the circulation of modern cultural forms of intelligibility. IS - 3 JF - Cultural Anthropology EP - 384 TI - Anthropology and the New Technologies of Communication VL - 21 SP - 354 KW - anthropology KW - media KW - mediaecology AU - Axel, Brian PY - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/can.2006.21.3.354 ER -