Technics Media in the Digital Age

Featuring 28 leading international media scholars, Technics rethinks technology for the contemporary digital era, with cutting-edge theoretical, historiographical, and methodological interventions. The volume’s contributors explore the ideas of Walter Benjamin, Ursula Le Guin, Bernhard Siegert, Gilb...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Baer, Nicholas, 1985- (-)
Otros Autores: van den Oever, Annie
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press 2024.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Key debates ; v.10
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Editorial
  • Acknowledgments
  • PART I Questions Concerning Technics
  • 1. Technics: An Introduction
  • 2. Ten Statements on Technics
  • PART II Philosophies of Technology
  • 3. Machine Aesthetics: Animation through Technology, Animation of Technology
  • 4. “New Stars Were Rising in the Sky” : On Benjamin’s Concept of Cosmic Experience and Technology around 1930
  • 5. Instructions for Use : Thinking Body, Machine, and Technicity with Simondon
  • 6. Knowing, Studying, Writing : A Conversation on History, Practice, and Other Doings with Technics
  • PART III Theories of Media
  • 7. Protective Media
  • Francesco Casetti
  • 8. Carried Away: The Carrier Bag Theory of Media
  • 9. Beyond Access: Transforming Ableist Techno-Worlds
  • PART IV Archaeologies of Media
  • 10. Coming to Terms with the “Smart” Phone
  • 11. The Afterlife of an Optical Device, or Making the Lantern Kosher
  • PART V Filmic Techniques
  • 12. Theories of the Frame and Framing in Cinema: A Genealogy
  • 13. Split Screens : A Discussion with Catherine Grant, Malte Hagener, and Katharina Loew
  • 14. Specks of Time : Digital Editing and Verse Jumping in Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • PART VI Digital Humanities
  • 15. Streams, Portals, and Data Flows: Digital Infrastructures of Film Studies
  • 16. Six Memos for the New Millennium : A Dialogue with Andreas Fickers on Epistemic Virtues in the Digital Humanities