{"product_id":"wireless-futures-speculative-media-and-german-modernity-9781399553599","title":"Wireless Futures: Speculative Media and German Modernity","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Erik Born\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Media Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat will wireless media be like in the future? How might they change people and societies? Will the future differ significantly from the past? \u003ci\u003eWireless Futures \u003c\/i\u003eargues that meaningful answers to these century-old questions depend equally on markets, technical limits, and sociotechnical imaginaries of media change. Before wireless came to mean 'Wi-Fi, ' before 'the wireless' meant 'radio, ' even before the first trials in radiotelegraphy, it was a central object of financial and theoretical speculation. \u003ci\u003eWireless Futures\u003c\/i\u003e unpacks the speculative media question for the case of German modernity. Interrogating the materiality, temporality, and contingency of wireless, this critical project contributes to media philosophy, modernism \u0026amp; modernity studies, and German literary \u0026amp; cultural studies. \u003ci\u003eWireless Futures\u003c\/i\u003e models an approach to speculative media based on testing out the limits of media knowledge and questioning the limits of limit-thinking. It shows how the present continuously remakes connections between the past.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47773302194327,"sku":"9781399553599","price":14120.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781399553599.webp?v=1777978701","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/wireless-futures-speculative-media-and-german-modernity-9781399553599","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}