Faculty at the EMC
William Beatty Warner
(Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1977)
Professor, English Department
U. California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170
fax: (805) 893-4622
email: warner@english.ucsb.edu
Warner

 

"Rather than setting media technology up against the human, and gratifying ourselves, Faust-like, with the heady fantasies of the unrivaled powers of modern media, or scaring ourselves with these supposed powers, as if we were a victim in the opening scenes of a s/f movie, why not accept the mobius-like co-implication of the human and the media? Because it is difficult to imagine media apart from the human subjects who use/read-write/consume/inhabit all the forms of media we know; and, because it is difficult to imagine human subjects (individually or collectively, socially or politically) without the media that mediate so many human exchanges and communications, it may be most useful to see both media and humans within a common history, which Clifford Siskin and I have called the 'history of mediation."


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