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According to Wikipedia , John Durham Peters is the María Rosa Menocal Professor of English and of Film & Media Studies at Yale University. A media historian and social theorist, he has authored a number of noted scholarly works. His first book, Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication, traces out broad historical, philosophical, religious, cultural, legal, and technological contexts for the study of communication. His second book Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition updates the philosophy of free expression with a history of liberal thought since Paul of Tarsus. His signal work of media philosophy The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media radically rethinks how media are environments and environments are also media. His most recent book, coauthored with the late Kenneth Cmiel, Promiscuous Knowledge offers a genealogy of the information age from its earliest origins, focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries into the present moment. He has advised dozens of dissertations and published hundreds of articles and chapters. Peters has held fellowships with the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Foundation, and the Leverhulme Trust, among others.
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1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500 4000 4500 5000 5500 6000 6500 Published Works The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (1991) Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication (1999) (562)Whose Justice? Which Rationality? (1991) (560)Witnessing (2001) Distrust of representation: Habermas on the public sphere (1993) Office of Justice Programs (2014) INSTITUTIONAL SOURCES OF INTELLECTUAL POVERTY IN COMMUNICATION RESEARCH (1986) The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media (2015) Information: Notes Toward a Critical History (1988) Historical Tensions in the Concept of Public Opinion (1995) (81)John Locke, the individual, and the origin of communication (1989) Defining Phonography: An Experiment in Theory (1997) Autism and new media: Disability between technology and society (2016) The gaps of which communication is made 1 (1994) Genealogical Notes on "The Field.". (1993) Media ethics and the public sphere (1991) (45)Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition (2005) (43)Mass Communication and American Social Thought: Key Texts, 1919-1968 (2004) (42)Public Journalism and Democratic Theory: Four Challenges (1999) (40)"The Only Proper Scale of Representation": The Politics of Statistics and Stories (2001) Calendar, Clock, Tower (2012) History as a Communication Problem (2008) (31)Technology and Ideology: The Case of the Telegraph Revisited (2006) (28)Publicity and Pain: Self-Abstraction in Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments (1995) Satan and savior: Mass communication in progressive thought (1989) The Uncanniness of Mass Communication in Interwar Social Thought (1996) Community and Communication: The Conceptual Background (2001) (22)Meaning and Modernity (1987) Doors: On the Materiality of the Symbolic (2012) Medium and message (1998) Media as conversation, conversation as media (2006) (19)Seeing Bifocally: Media, Place, Culture (2020) Space, Time, and Communication Theory (2003) Strange sympathies: Horizons of media theory in America and Germany (2007) (18)Rhetoric's Revival, Positivism's Persistence: Social Science, Clear Communication, and the Public Space (1990) Helmholtz, Edison, and Sound History (2020) The Reality of Construction (1989) (17)The Marketplace of Ideas‟: A History of the Concept (2004) (16)Finding a Voice : towards a Woman's Discourse of Dialogue in the Narration of « Jane Eyre » (1991) (16)Broadcasting and schizophrenia (2010) Communication as Dissemination (2005) Canonic Texts in Media Research: Are There Any Should There Be How About These (2002) (15)Holding onto Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium (2000) (15)Media and Communications (2001) Realism in Social Representation and the Fate of the Public (1997) “You Mean My Whole Fallacy Is Wrong”: On Technological Determinism (2017) The Voice and Modern Media (2004) (12)The Subtlety of Horkheimer and Adorno: Reading „The Culture Industry (2003) (12)Communication and Community: The Conceptual Background (2001) (12)Proliferation and Obsolescence of the Historical Record in the Digital Era (2015) Institutional Opportunities for Intellectual History in Communication Studies (2008) (10)An Afterword: Torchlight Red on Sweaty Faces (2009) (10)Infrastructuralism: Media as Traffic between Nature and Culture (2015) Nomadism, Diaspora, Exile: The Stakes of Mobility within the Western Canon (1998) (9)Harold Innis's History of communications : paper and printing : antiquity to early modernity (2015) McLuhan’s Grammatical Theology (2011) Resemblance made absolutely exact: Borges and Royce on maps and media (2008) (8)Conclusion: Responsibility to Things That Are Not (2005) Two Cheers for Technological Determinism (2011) (7)The Part Played by Gentiles in the Flow of Mass Communications: On the Ethnic Utopia of Personal Influence (2006) Philosophical Profiles in the Theory of Communication (2012) Communication as the Discipline of the 21st Century (2011) (7)Promiscuous Knowledge (2020) Beauty‟s Veils: The Ambivalent Iconoclasm of Kierkegaard and Benjamin (1997) (6)Bowels of Mercy (1999) (5)In Quest of Ever Better Heresies (2008) (5)Norbert Wiener as pragmatist (2016) Beyond Reciprocity: Public Communication as a Moral Ideal (1995) (4)Supreme Court Cases (2017) (4)The Gaps of Which Communication (1994) (4)Recording beyond the Grave: Joseph Smith’s Celestial Bookkeeping (2016) Friedrich Kittler‟s Light Shows (2010) (4)Reading over McLuhan’s Shoulder (2019) The Need for Theoretical Foundations (1988) The Diffusion of Microcomputers in California High Schools (1985) (3)Friedrich Kittler’s Light Shows.” Introduction to Friedrich Kittler (2010) (3)Raymond Williams's Culture and Society as Research Method (2008) Assessing Kittler's Musik und Mathematik (2015) (3)Charity and chilliness (2011) Publicity and Pain (2005) Communication, History of the Idea (2008) Retroactive Enrichment: Raymond Williams‟s Culture and Society (2003) (3)Review: The Curious Reception of Pragmatism Examined--and Exemplified (1994) (2)Fugitives From Justice (2014) (2)Mormonism and Media (2015) Supreme Court Justice (2016) (2)Why Dewey Wasn‟t so Right and Lippmann Wasn‟t so Wrong: Recasting the Lippmann-Dewey Debate (1997) (2)Media: The Case of Spain and New Spain (2022) 33 + 1 Vignettes on the History of Scalar Inversion (2019) "The Root of Humanity": Hegel on Language and Communication (1997) (2)Why We Use Pencils and Other Thoughts on the Archive (An Afterword). (2011) (2)Plenary| Sweet Lemons (2011) (2)A Recent Chapter In The Messianic Tradition (2007) (2)Preludes to a Theory of Obscenity (2011) (2)Sharing of thoughts or recognizing otherness? Reply to Logue and miller (1996) Perfection: A Social Criticism and A Theological Alternative (1987) (2)Tangled legacies : Symposium : Intellectual roots of communication research (1996) (2)Metonymy in the Evolution of Meaning (1980) (1)Looking for the Horizon: An Interview between John Durham Peters and Chris Russill (2017) The Charge of a Light Barricade: (2019) What Unions No Longer Do by Jake Rosenfeld (review) (2015) (1)The Meaning of Writing (2010) (1)Revising the 18th-Century Script (1989) (1)Honoring Roger Silverstone] A Recent Chapter in the Messianic Tradition? (2007) (1)The Curious Reception of Pragmatism Examined--and Exemplified@@@Pragmatism and Social Theory. (1994) The Liberalism of the Other (2008) (1)The Public Voice of Radio (2018) Book Reviews (2000) Introduction: Small Means, Great Things (2018) Code Of Military Justice (2014) (0)A Cornucopia of Meanwhiles (2020) Gideon V Wainwright Supreme Court Arguments (2014) (0)The Mercurian Women of Decatur (2005) (0)Getting the Message: A History of Communications (1999) (2000) (0)God and Google (2010) (0)Supreme Court Work (2015) (0)Infrastructures Old and New (2011) (0)3. The Culture of Happy Summary, 1920–45 (2020) Action at a Distance (2020) “Meekness as a Dangerous Activity”: Witnessing as Participation (2005) Review of The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences0 (1989) (0)The Liberalism of the Other: Response to Carolyn Marvin (2008) (0)The Middle Path after Paul, Thoreau, Arendt, and Havel (2006) (0)1. Warning Horatio (2020) “Memorable Equinox” (2020) Rereading Raymond Williams‟s Culture and Society (2000) (0)Introduction: Hard-hearted Liberalism (2005) Court Decisions Effects (2014) (0)Reactor construction management can solve the problem (1974) (0)“My ancestors welling in me”: sound and silence in the Salt Lake Tabernacle (2020) The Culture Industry Revisited: Theodor W. Adorno on Mass Culture (2003) Court Writing Opinions (2014) (0)Remembering Bruce Gronbeck (2015) Pornography Court Decisions (2014) (0)Philosophy of Free Expression (1995) (0)Books Received 25.4 (2003) Theorizing Communication: A History (1996) (1998) (0)Realism in Social Description and the Fate of the Public (2001) (0)Bilderverbot in Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Benjamin (1993) (0)Autism and Digital Media (2015) (0)Administrative Law Judges (2016) (0)The Suspension of Irreversibility:: The Fundamental (and Futile) Task of Media (2021) Simon Cottle and Libby Lester (eds), Transnational Protests and the Media (2013) Mass Communication: Normative Frameworks (2001) Supreme Court Membership (2014) (0)Cloud as a mediating technology of organization (2019) BOOK REVIEWS (2007) Cry the Beloved Country. A Sound Filmstrip Program. Study Guide. (1983) (0)Speech Machines and Confusions of Mass and Personal Address (2006) (0)The Rhythms of Reflection (1989) (0)Dialogue vs. Dissemination: Two Cheers for Representative Democracy (1996) (0)Conclusion – The End of Intellectual Nomadism (0)Louis L'Amour's American West. A Sound Filmstrip Program. Study Guide. (1983) (0)FBI Jurisdiction And Investigative Responsibilities (2014) (0)Sinfulness, Saintliness, and Monkey-Business (2005) (0)Some American Reflections on Indian Literature in English (1986) (0)Literature as Sheltering the Human (review) (1995) Saint Paul's Shudder (2005) Supreme Court Origins (2015) (0)Review of Deborah Cook, Culture Industry Revisited: T. W. Adorno on Mass Culture (1995 (2004) (0)Google wants to God's mind: the secret theology of "I'm feeling lucky" (2015) (0)Communication Infrastructures, Old and New (2011) (0)American Indian Language History And Culture Teachers (2014) (0)Front Matter, Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, Issue 18, Spring 2018 (2018) Dred Scott Case In The Supreme Court (2014) (0)Language and Mathematics Teaching in the Open University. (1975) (0)The Suspension of Irreversibility: (2021) Charting the Pacific ca. 1850: Melville, Maury, Marx, and Mormons [Video] (2021) Supreme Court Power (2017) (0)German-American Influences in Media Theory: The Case of Lewis Mumford‟s Technics and Civilization (2009) (0)Dialogue and Eros in the Phaedrus (2001) (0)District Court Judges (2016) (0)Police tactics for video deserve fierce resistance (2011) (0)Media, Place, and Culture (1995) (0)2. Victorian Culture and the Diffusion of Learning (2020) 6. Promiscuous Knowledge, 1975–2000 (2020) Compassion, Pity and Self-abstraction (2010) (0)“Evil Be Thou My Good”: Milton and Abyss-Redemption (2005) Paul Lazarsfeld and his Contexts (2001) (0)4. The Age of the World Picture, 1925–45 (2020) Book Review Literature as Sheltering the Human (1995) Matter Made Graciously Present (2013) Jake Rosenfeld, What Unions No Longer Do (2015) (0)“God and Google,” and “Questions of Obscenity,” (2010) (0)Philosophy of Technology : 11th Södertörn Lecture, Södertörn University April 23, 2014 (2015) (0)The Intellectual Situation of The Happiness Game (2011) (0)The Limits of Dialogic Democracy: The Case of the Lippmann-Dewey Debate (1997) (0)Am Anfang war die Operation (2017) Gideon V Wainwright The Supreme Court Opinion (2014) (0)“Watch, Therefore”: Suffering and the Informed Citizen (2005) Thurgood Marshall NAACP Lawyer (2014) (0)Thurgood Marshall Justice (2014) (0)Unfair Campaign Practices (2014) (0)Clerks of Court (2016) (0)Interpersonal Love and Mass Rhetoric in Plato‟s Phaedrus (1993) (0)Interstate Agreement On Detainers (2014) (0)The Media and the Judiciary (2020) Adam Smith on the Impartial Spectator: Selected, with an introductory note and annotations (1995) Abe Lincoln in Illinois. A Sound Filmstrip Program. Study Guide. (1983) (0)Spectacle vs. Participation: Tensions in the Concept of Public Opinion (1992) (0)Unfair And Deceptive Practices (2016) (0)‘ Intercourse with Ghosts ’ ‘ Haunted Territories ’ revisited (2019) (0)Arno Schmidt among Comic Commentators on the Book of Mormon (2019) Homeopathic Machismo in Free Speech Theory (2005) Social Science as Public Communication (2005) Foreword: On Living with Tensions (2009) (0)Acts Of God (2016) (0)Unfair Labor Practices (2016) Religious Technologies of Counting and Accounting (2010) (0)The Voice Between Media, Phenomenology, and Religion (2004) (0)The Happiness Game| The Happiness Game: Notes on the Katz Canon (2012) (0)Pity, Terror, and the Enigma of the Virtuous Killer (2003) (0)Love, Death, and the Nation-State (2001) (0)Foreword: Some Assembly Required (2021) The Voice Between Phenomenology, Media, and Religion (2004) Madness, Media, Modernity, Metaphor, Materiality (2009) (0)More Papers This paper list is powered by the following services:
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