Monobeing

Brian Rotman

  • God: An Itinerary by Régis Debray
    Verso, 307 pp, £25.00, March 2004, ISBN 1 85984 589 4

Five years ago Régis Debray published an article in Le Monde diplomatique entitled ‘What Is Mediology?’ His aim was to open up a notion he’d introduced in passing twenty years earlier. Neither a science nor a sociology of the media, mediology, Debray explained, is a discipline of the in-between (l’entre-deux): a study of the interactions between technology and culture, between the higher modes of human activity – religion, discursive thought, art – and the lower: transmission, documentation and material production.

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Vol. 27 No. 4 · 17 February 2005 » Brian Rotman » Monobeing (print version)
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