This is an experimental chat for the upcoming Cosmos Café… an introduction, a grounding or a taste, of sorts, into how the topic arose. We also try to convey what Peters means by communication in the recommended reading “The Problem of Communication” (the introduction to Speaking into the Air):
“Micheal grounds us in his understanding of communication as depicted in Speaking into the Air by John Durham Peters. This short conversation touches on the history of communication; the experience of difference in communication; the problem of communication as a recent phenomenon; dialogue and dissemination; the body and other forms media; sending and receiving the message; control of media; our relation to technology. Micheal and Doug also talk about the weather!”