@article{wpcc 7, author = {Paddy Scannell}, title = {Love and Communication: A Review Essay}, volume = {1}, year = {2017}, url = {https://www.westminsterpapers.org/article/id/7/}, issue = {1}, doi = {10.16997/wpcc.205}, abstract = {<p>Speaking into the Air is, quite simply, the most original and thought provoking book on communication that I have read. It is dazzlingly and sometimes obscurely erudite yet with a clear and coherent argument that challenges our current commonsense views about communication. I am persuaded by this argument, though less so by the point at which John Durham Peters himself takes leave of it. That point seems to me to be oddly, uncomfortably, strange; something which, in itself, needs some explanation. It’s partly to do, I think, with the Americanness of the book and partly its religiousness. Neither of these two points, I hasten to add, are implied criticisms. But they might begin to account for its strangeness, for this is a weird and eccentric book, voyaging in strange seas of thought alone, far from the busy, crowded lanes down which the usual academic shipping travels.</p>}, month = {6}, pages = {93-102}, issn = {1744-6716}, publisher={University of Westminster Press}, journal = {Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture} }