Sublime Communication Technologies

by Rod Giblett

This lively new study is a critical cultural history of communication technologies, from railways and telegraphy to computers and the Internet, in which Rod Giblett argues that these technologies play a pivotal role in the cultural history of modernity and its project of the sublime.

Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Rod Giblett is the author of 'Black Swan Lake: Life of a Wetland' (Intellect Books, 2011) and many other books about wetlands. He lived by Forrestdale Lake on the outskirts of Perth in Western Australia for 28 years. He taught and researched at Australian universities for 25 years and is now a writer. He is married to a retired junior primary school teacher who helped a lot with the writing of 'The Dragon and Saint George'.