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The invention of communication

This genealogy maps the many means by which humans interact - from cataloguing others, to asserting power over them, to working together with them to build new forms of community.
Print Book, English, ©1996
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, ©1996
History
xvii, 349 pages ; 23 cm
9780816626960, 9780816626977, 0816626960, 0816626979
1082493105
Part I The society of flows: the paths of reason; the economy of circulation; the crossroads of evolution. Part II Utopias of the universal bond: the cult of the network; the temple of industry; the communitarian city. Part III The hierachization of the world; symbolic propagation; strategic thought. Part IV The measure of the individual: the protrayal of crowds; the pace of the human motor; the market of target groups. Epilogue: new organic totalities?
Includes index
Translation of: Invention de la communication