{"product_id":"horn-or-the-counterside-of-media-9781478017721","title":"Horn, or the Counterside of Media","description":"We regularly touch and handle media devices. At the same time, media devices such as body scanners, car seat pressure sensors, and smart phones scan and touch us. In \u003ci\u003eHorn\u003c\/i\u003e, Henning Schmidgen reflects on the bidirectional nature of touch and the ways in which surfaces constitute sites of mediation between interior and exterior. Schmidgen uses the concept of \"horn\"--whether manifested as a rhinoceros horn or a musical instrument--to stand for both natural substances and artificial objects as spaces of tactility. He enters into creative dialogue with artists, scientists, and philosophers, ranging from Salvador Dal?, William Kentridge, and Rebecca Horn to Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, and Marshall McLuhan, who plumb the complex interplay between tactility and technological and biological surfaces. Whether analyzing how Dal? conceived of images as tactile entities during his \"rhinoceros phase\" or examining the problem of tactility in Thomas Pynchon's \u003ci\u003eThe Crying of Lot 49\u003c\/i\u003e, Schmidgen reconfigures understandings of the dynamic phenomena of touch in media.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHenning Schmidgen is Professor of Media Studies at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and author of \u003ci\u003eBruno Latour in Pieces: An Intellectual Biography\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Helmholtz Curves: Tracing Lost Time\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50483011059986,"sku":"9781478017721","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_35bc7cde-bf0f-4490-9c6b-aa62a9099465.jpg?v=1730354685","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/horn-or-the-counterside-of-media-9781478017721","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}