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Philosophy of the Medium offers a lively and nuanced interrogation of the ongoing viability of the assumptions of medium theory, a leftover from the age of McLuhan, in terms of questions about a medium’s disappearance, transparency, digital dematerialization, objecthood, lack of concreteness and, ultimately, content. This is an important addition to media ontology. * Gary Genosko, Professor of Communication and Digital Media, Ontario Tech University, Canada * This is an important book that offers a formidable challenge to existing orthodoxies as Lechte takes on a range of thinkers and shows how they have misunderstood what a “medium” is, resulting in a need to change the ways we think about media, art, and the world as such. * Richard Rushton, Professor of Film Studies, Lancaster University, UK *

"""Philosophy of the Medium offers a lively and nuanced interrogation of the ongoing viability of the assumptions of medium theory, a leftover from the age of McLuhan, in terms of questions about a medium's disappearance, transparency, digital dematerialization, objecthood, lack of concreteness and, ultimately, content. This is an important addition to media ontology."" --Gary Genosko, Professor of Communication and Digital Media, Ontario Tech University, Canada ""This is an important book that offers a formidable challenge to existing orthodoxies as Lechte takes on a range of thinkers and shows how they have misunderstood what a ""medium"" is, resulting in a need to change the ways we think about media, art, and the world as such."" --Richard Rushton, Professor of Film Studies, Lancaster University, UK"

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John Lechte is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Macquarie University, Australia. He has published widely on French thought, particularly the work of Julia Kristeva. He is author of Genealogy and Ontology of the Western Image and its Digital Future (2013), which includes an analysis of Sartre’s philosophy of the image. His most recent book is The Human: Bare Life and Ways of Life (Bloomsbury, 2018).

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