Immediacy
Author: Carson Welsh In his essay “Genesis of the Media Concept,” John Guillory marks a problem that has haunted theories of mediation since well before the twenieth century: a “philosophical confusion … between mediation as an abstract, even logical process and medium as material technology” (338). Recent and disparate work in media theory makes one wonder whether anything is not a medium in at least one of these two senses,… Read More »Immediacy
