Bergson and the Metaphysics of Media

  • Stephen Crocker
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction
      Stephen Crocker
      Pages 1-14

  3. Medium as Means and Obstacle

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 15-15
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    2. Metaphysical Media: The Discrete and the Continuous in Deleuze and McLuhan
      Stephen Crocker
      Pages 17-44
    3. One or Many Planes: The Composition of Intervals in Painting and Film
      Stephen Crocker
      Pages 45-61
    4. Sounds Complicated: Audition as ‘Three-Dimensional Thought’
      Stephen Crocker
      Pages 62-69
    5. Noise Is the Presence of the Medium
      Stephen Crocker
      Pages 70-80

  4. Killing Time: Synchrony and Diachrony

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 81-81
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    2. Instrumental Reason and the War on Intervals
      Stephen Crocker
      Pages 83-93
    3. Distracted and Contemplative Time
      Stephen Crocker
      Pages 94-110
    4. Empty, Homogenous Time/Any-Moment-Whatever
      Stephen Crocker
      Pages 111-123

  5. Man Falls Down: Unanswerable Situations

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 125-125
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    2. Compromise Formations: Bergson’s Vitalism
      Stephen Crocker
      Pages 127-140
    3. Unanswerable Situations
      Stephen Crocker
      Pages 141-157
    4. Conclusion: On Failure and Wonder
      Stephen Crocker
      Pages 158-160
  6. Back Matter
    Pages 161-185
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About this book

Introduction

What is a medium? Why is there always a middle? Can media produce 'immediacy'? Henri Bergson recognized mediation as the central philosophical problem of modernity. This book traces his influence on the 'media philosophies' of Gilles Deleuze, Marshall McLuhan, Walter Benjamin and Michel Serres.

Keywords

film Marshall McLuhan media Medium metaphysics philosophy reason

Authors and affiliations

  • Stephen Crocker
    • 1
  1. 1.Memorial University of NewfoundlandCanada

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137324504
  • Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
  • eBook Packages Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection
  • Print ISBN 978-1-349-45896-7
  • Online ISBN 978-1-137-32450-4
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