Juraj Kittler
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 176958 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Juraj Kittler |
| PRENOMES | Juraj |
| SOBRENOME | Kittler |
| ASSINATURA | KITTLER J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | St. Lawrence University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8110-9205 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1982 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Venetian Control of Information Flows with Constantinople and the Soft Power of a Renaissance State
The ability to control international flows of information constitutes one of the core elements of the soft power of any modern state aspiring to exercise some level of regional or global hegemony. This phenomenon has been previously examined by those who study long-distance communications mainly in the context of the nineteenth-century telegraph or the twentieth-century broadcast. However, inquiries focusing on the analogous historical role perfo…
Da Venezia al Cairo
The Pen is so Noble and Excellent an Instrument”
This essay argues that the modern newswriting tradition can be traced back to the networks of Italian medieval merchants and Renaissance diplomats. As of the late 1200s, merchant letters reveal an increasing tendency to report important political and military events for the sake of business interests. The emergence of permanent embassies in Italy in the mid-1400s gave a further impetus to the development of newswriting techniques, since one of th…
Caught between business, war and politics
This essay challenges the notion that the early modern news-gathering practices and networks in Europe crystallized only in the late fourteenth and throughout the fifteenth century, corresponding with the emergence of permanent embassies and state-run postal systems. Inspired by an article published in 2005 by Georg Christ that for the first time problematized this notion, the author offers additional evidence conveyed in the experience of late m…
Public
The term “public” is one of the most frequently used concepts in a wide range of disciplines, from social sciences to political philosophy, yet it is also one that is among the most vaguely defined. It was adapted to English from Latin and in the most common form it is implicitly defined as the opposite of private, yet at the same time it is often confounded with that which pertains to the state. The public—understood as an assembly of private ci…
The normative role of public opinion in the republican experience of Renaissance Venice
Challenging the traditional view that credits the emergence of public opinion to the Enlightenment era, this article claims that the modern Western roots of the concept can be already identified in the political environment of the urban communes in late medieval and Renaissance Europe. Consequently, its focus is on the role that public opinion played in the constitutional framework of one of the most prominent European city-states, the Republic o…
Ephemeral City
Michel Chevalier and the Saint-Simonian legacy
Michel Chevalier (1806–1879) and Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859) were two French contemporaries who on separate assignments travelled through North America on behalf of their government and consequently published their observations. Despite the fact that Chevalier’s analysis of the Jacksonian United States seems philosophically more consistent and theoretically better funded, in the course of the twentieth century it was almost completely overs…
From Rags to Riches
In the first four or five centuries of its manufacturing in Europe, paper was neither cheap nor available in unlimited quantities. Old rags, the primary material from which the paper was exclusively made, were a strategic commodity and trade with them was strictly regulated. Owing to their perpetual scarcity, as well as to the overall laboriousness of the papermaking process, a skilled master printer of the Incunabula period was hardly able to pu…
Digitizing a complex urban panorama in the Renaissance
This study surveys the fundamental technical approaches adopted by Renaissance artist Jacopo de’ Barbari in drafting his 1500 bird’s-eye view of Venice, as well as the ideological and military implications that accompanied the map’s production. In doing so, the authors point out some fundamental parallels between the masterpiece of Renaissance map-making and the current computer-supported digital representations of urban spaces. The historical so…
The Enlightenment and the Bourgeois Public Sphere (Through the Eyes of a L ondon Merchant‐Writer)
Conventional histories of the twentieth century had a propensity to idealize the seminal role played by the Enlightenment in ushering in modernity. Their impact on communication scholarship was reflected in Habermas's seminal work, which equated the main achievements of the English Enlightenment and the rise of the public sphere, defined as a venue fostering public opinion by means of rational debate. Yet, the same eighteenth‐century London coffe…
Too Big to Fail
In a rapid sequence of events in 1499--1500 the maritime Republic of Venice lost three of its four chief private banking institutions, labeled by the contemporary observer as the ‘four columns of the temple’. While economic historians have already analyzed the immediate causes of the crisis as well as its short-term impact on the Venetian economy, this study sees it from the perspective of the longue durée , as a surface manifestation of some dee…
Poster Session
Caught between business, war and politics
This essay challenges the notion that the early modern news-gathering practices and networks in Europe crystallized only in the late fourteenth and throughout the fifteenth century, corresponding with the emergence of permanent embassies and state-run postal systems. Inspired by an article published in 2005 by Georg Christ that for the first time problematized this notion, the author offers additional evidence conveyed in the experience of late m…
The normative role of public opinion in the republican experience of Renaissance Venice
Challenging the traditional view that credits the emergence of public opinion to the Enlightenment era, this article claims that the modern Western roots of the concept can be already identified in the political environment of the urban communes in late medieval and Renaissance Europe. Consequently, its focus is on the role that public opinion played in the constitutional framework of one of the most prominent European city-states, the Republic o…
Michel Chevalier and the Saint-Simonian legacy
Michel Chevalier (1806–1879) and Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859) were two French contemporaries who on separate assignments travelled through North America on behalf of their government and consequently published their observations. Despite the fact that Chevalier’s analysis of the Jacksonian United States seems philosophically more consistent and theoretically better funded, in the course of the twentieth century it was almost completely overs…
From Rags to Riches
In the first four or five centuries of its manufacturing in Europe, paper was neither cheap nor available in unlimited quantities. Old rags, the primary material from which the paper was exclusively made, were a strategic commodity and trade with them was strictly regulated. Owing to their perpetual scarcity, as well as to the overall laboriousness of the papermaking process, a skilled master printer of the Incunabula period was hardly able to pu…
Poster Session
The Enlightenment and the Bourgeois Public Sphere (Through the Eyes of a L ondon Merchant‐Writer)
Conventional histories of the twentieth century had a propensity to idealize the seminal role played by the Enlightenment in ushering in modernity. Their impact on communication scholarship was reflected in Habermas's seminal work, which equated the main achievements of the English Enlightenment and the rise of the public sphere, defined as a venue fostering public opinion by means of rational debate. Yet, the same eighteenth‐century London coffe…
Too Big to Fail
In a rapid sequence of events in 1499--1500 the maritime Republic of Venice lost three of its four chief private banking institutions, labeled by the contemporary observer as the ‘four columns of the temple’. While economic historians have already analyzed the immediate causes of the crisis as well as its short-term impact on the Venetian economy, this study sees it from the perspective of the longue durée , as a surface manifestation of some dee…
Digitizing a complex urban panorama in the Renaissance
This study surveys the fundamental technical approaches adopted by Renaissance artist Jacopo de’ Barbari in drafting his 1500 bird’s-eye view of Venice, as well as the ideological and military implications that accompanied the map’s production. In doing so, the authors point out some fundamental parallels between the masterpiece of Renaissance map-making and the current computer-supported digital representations of urban spaces. The historical so…
Michel Chevalier and the Saint-Simonian legacy
Michel Chevalier (1806–1879) and Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859) were two French contemporaries who on separate assignments travelled through North America on behalf of their government and consequently published their observations. Despite the fact that Chevalier’s analysis of the Jacksonian United States seems philosophically more consistent and theoretically better funded, in the course of the twentieth century it was almost completely overs…
From Rags to Riches
In the first four or five centuries of its manufacturing in Europe, paper was neither cheap nor available in unlimited quantities. Old rags, the primary material from which the paper was exclusively made, were a strategic commodity and trade with them was strictly regulated. Owing to their perpetual scarcity, as well as to the overall laboriousness of the papermaking process, a skilled master printer of the Incunabula period was hardly able to pu…
Ephemeral City
Public
The term “public” is one of the most frequently used concepts in a wide range of disciplines, from social sciences to political philosophy, yet it is also one that is among the most vaguely defined. It was adapted to English from Latin and in the most common form it is implicitly defined as the opposite of private, yet at the same time it is often confounded with that which pertains to the state. The public—understood as an assembly of private ci…
The normative role of public opinion in the republican experience of Renaissance Venice
Challenging the traditional view that credits the emergence of public opinion to the Enlightenment era, this article claims that the modern Western roots of the concept can be already identified in the political environment of the urban communes in late medieval and Renaissance Europe. Consequently, its focus is on the role that public opinion played in the constitutional framework of one of the most prominent European city-states, the Republic o…
Caught between business, war and politics
This essay challenges the notion that the early modern news-gathering practices and networks in Europe crystallized only in the late fourteenth and throughout the fifteenth century, corresponding with the emergence of permanent embassies and state-run postal systems. Inspired by an article published in 2005 by Georg Christ that for the first time problematized this notion, the author offers additional evidence conveyed in the experience of late m…
The Pen is so Noble and Excellent an Instrument”
This essay argues that the modern newswriting tradition can be traced back to the networks of Italian medieval merchants and Renaissance diplomats. As of the late 1200s, merchant letters reveal an increasing tendency to report important political and military events for the sake of business interests. The emergence of permanent embassies in Italy in the mid-1400s gave a further impetus to the development of newswriting techniques, since one of th…
Da Venezia al Cairo
Venetian Control of Information Flows with Constantinople and the Soft Power of a Renaissance State
The ability to control international flows of information constitutes one of the core elements of the soft power of any modern state aspiring to exercise some level of regional or global hegemony. This phenomenon has been previously examined by those who study long-distance communications mainly in the context of the nineteenth-century telegraph or the twentieth-century broadcast. However, inquiries focusing on the analogous historical role perfo…
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