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The Marvelous Clouds

Paperback • 2016 • English

The Marvelous Clouds

By John Durham Peters

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About the book

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. Peters defines media expansively as elements that compose the human world. D...Show more

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ISBN

9780226421353

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published year

2016

Language

English

Original title

The Marvelous Clouds

Format

Paperback

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