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On Communication in the Modern Age: Taylorism and Beyond

It is possible to see “the speaking machine”, as the telephone was often called in the contemporary press, as having formed a speaking machine of the whole society at the end of the nineteenth century. This is because it provided a pattern not only for electric communication in the modern age, but also for the social system viewed as a whole. The telephone can be seen as an intersection of powers in and through which both the modern communication and industrial order — which are not to be treated as separate from each other — assumed their shapes. It is my intention here to bring out the path of development through which communication, seen as both the object and means of political projects during the age of telephone's heyday, was given a pivotal position in the self‐descriptions of society.