دانلود کتاب Body, Image and Relationship From Culture of Knowledge to Culture of Communication

This book is built around the generally endorsed view that communication has
gained a leading place in contemporary culture. But it likewise pays attention to this top
position’s scaffolding details and techniques which are more significant than even the
triumph of communication. The first chapter tries to show that if the body is winning the
battle against its soul, it does so in communication only as an image. The second chapter
contends that image conquers text, but that behind this image lays the digital texture of
codes and programs. The third chapter claims that in communication, being in a
relationship becomes more important than the transmission of information, but that in
this way the subjective identities of those who communicate tend to be dissolved. And
the fourth chapter argues that, consequently, practices and theoretical models of
communication are moving from persuasion to manipulation and seduction. The core
idea of the fifth chapter is that we live, for better or for worse, in a culture in which
communication has taken the place of knowledge: just as modernity culture overrated
knowledge, our culture overstates communication.