ROD GIBLETT is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, School of Communications and Contemporary Arts, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. He is the author of Postmodern Wetlands: Culture, History, Ecology (1996) and Living with the Earth: Mastery to Mutuality (2004).

Preface Acknowledgements Flow along a Channel: Communication and its Technologies  Crude Conqueror of Nature: Steam Railways  Mind over Matter: Electrical Telegraphy    Shooting the Event: The Camera is a Gun, Photography is a Shot The Hell of Images: Cinema Paradiso   Magician's Bower and Monstrous Mechanical: The Car as Communication Technology  The Magical in the Modern: Ethereal Radio  Disciplinary and Flânerie: The Panopticon and Panorama of Television  Orbiting in the Sublime Company of Heavenly Bodies: Satellites from Cold War to Gulf War  The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace and the Slimy Swamps of War: Computers and the Internet Blue Sky Mining: Spectrum and Space References Index

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.