Le monde est devenu une zone de non-droit, une terre désolée où grouillent démons et criminels de tout poil. Au bord d’une route, la famille de Sona Yuki est assassinée par des bandits. Marqué au fer rouge, le jeune garçon agonise dans un désert aride quand surgit Garami, une marchande d’armes qui lui propose un choix cruel : céder à la facilité en s’abandonnant à la mort ou bi...(展开全部)

威廉·弗卢塞尔（Vilém Flusser），巴西籍哲学家、媒介理论家，1920年出生于布拉格的犹太家庭，第二次世界大战爆发后经英国流亡巴西，1961年后以葡萄牙语、德语、法语等多种语言出版论著。他的作品包括《摄影哲学的思考》《技术图像的宇宙》《人类传播中的惊奇时刻》等。 译者李一君，华中科技大学新闻与信息传播学院讲师，中国传媒大学传媒艺术学博士。

Poised between hope and despair for a humanity facing an urgent communication crisis, this work by Vilém Flusser forecasts either the first truly human, infinitely creative society in history or a society of unbearable, oppressive sameness, locked in a pattern it cannot change. First published in German in 1985 and now available in English for the first time, Into the Universe ...(展开全部)

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.

In contemporary debates, communication is variously invoked as a panacea for the problems of both democracy and love, as a dream of a new information society brought about by new technologies, and as a wistful ideal of human relations. How, and why, did communication come to shoulder the load it carries? In John Durham Peters's work, the teachings of Socrates and Jesus, the the...(展开全部)

Today we are accustomed to psychiatrists being summoned to scenes of terrorist attacks, natural disasters, war, and other tragic events to care for the psychic trauma of victims - yet it has not always been so. The very idea of psychic trauma came into being only at the end of the nineteenth century and for a long time was treated with suspicion. "The Empire of Trauma" tells th...(展开全部)

Today we are accustomed to psychiatrists being summoned to scenes of terrorist attacks, natural disasters, war, and other tragic events to care for the psychic trauma of victims - yet it has not always been so. The very idea of psychic trauma came into being only at the end of the nineteenth century and for a long time was treated with suspicion. "The Empire of Trauma" tells th...(展开全部)