Monobeing 
Brian Rotman
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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Brian Rotman is a member of the faculty of comparative studies at Ohio State University. He is the author of Signifying Nothing (about zero) and of Ad Infinitum: The Ghost in Turing’s Machine.
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