Peters, John Durham

Media theorist John Durham Peters wants us to reexamine the purposes of media and how fundamental media are. (59 minutes)

John Durham Peters discusses the history of the idea of communication, saying that our hopes are too high when we believe that the solution to social discord is just better communication. (49 minutes)

FROM THE GUEST PAGE: John Durham Peters is María Rosa Menocal of English and Professor of Film and Media Studies at Yale.

FEATURED GUESTS: John Durham Peters, Paul Heintzman, Richard Lints, Peter Harrison, Francis J. Beckwith, David L. Schindler, and Nicholas J. Healy, Jr.

FEATURED GUESTS: Christopher Clausen, Don Eberly, George Weigel, Luci Shaw, Steve Wilkens, David Harvey, John Durham Peters, and Masaaki Suzuki