By John Durham Peters
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Fashion illustrates such simultaneity: in some periods past styles (swing music, sideburns, bell-bottoms) are dead and off-limits, and in others they are suddenly current again. The past lives selectively in the present. 2 What these reflections mean for this book is that I try to illuminate the present by excavating several past moments with which I believe it has an affinity. There is little here that is directly about television, cinema, or the Internet, and not much beyond the mid-twentieth century.
For Heidegger communication revealed our simultaneous togetherness/otherness as social beings; for Ogden and Richards it allowed a clean meeting of minds; and for Dewey it sustained the building of community and the dance of creation. Each of these five views is also anticipated in earlier doctrines. 29 The dream of mental conjunction via semantic agreement was traced by John Locke, and the dream of shared consciousness reaches to medieval angelology and mysticism. The breakdown of communication was explored by Kierkegaard and Emerson, and Hegel saw communication as the staking of an existential claim to recognition as a human among other humans.
Communication in this sense makes problems of relationships into problems of proper tuning or noise reduction. As I examine such media of transmission and recording as the post office, telephone, camera, phonograph, and radio in later chapters, my focus will be not on how they affected face-to-face communication as an already constituted zone of human activity, but rather on how such media made “communication” possible as a concept in the first place, with all its misfires, mismatches, and skewed effects.