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The Marvelous Clouds – Towards a Philosophy of Elemental Media
The Marvelous Clouds – Towards a Philosophy of Elemental Media
John Durham Peters
University of Chicago Press, 19 jun. 2015 – 410 pagina’s
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 Marvelous Clouds, John Durham Peters argues that though we often think of media as environments, the reverse is just as true—environments are media.
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