John Durham Peters - Selected Publications#

BOOKS:

Promiscuous Knowledge: Information, Image, and Other Truth Games in History. By Kenneth Cmiel and John Durham Peters. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2020). xvi + 328 pp.

The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. 416 pp.

Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 309 pp.

Mass Communication and American Social Thought: Key Texts, 1919-1968. Eds. JDP and Peter Simonson. Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004. 531 pp.

Canonic Texts in Media Research: Are There Any? Should There Be? How About These? Eds. Elihu Katz, John Durham Peters, Tamar Liebes, and Avril Orloff. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2003. 265 pp.

Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. 293 pp.

ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS:

“‘My Ancestors Welling in Me’: Sound and Silence in the Salt Lake Tabernacle,” Sound Studies 6:2 (2020): 114-129.

“Reading over McLuhan’s Shoulder.” Canadian Journal of Communication 44:4 (2019): 489-501.

“The Charge of a Light Barricade: Optics and Ballistics in the Ambiguous Being of Screens,” Screen Genealogies: From Optical Device to Environmental Medium, ed. Craig Buckley, Rüdiger Campe, and Francesco Casetti (Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press, 2019), 215-35.