ISBN:
9780823263752
,
9780823263769
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 265 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
IKKM Books 22
Series Statement:
Meaning systems
Series Statement:
Schriften des Internationalen Kollegs für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie
DDC:
302.23
Keywords:
Mass media and culture
;
Medienwirkungsforschung
;
Medienforschung
;
Sozialwissenschaften
Abstract:
"This volume designates a shift within posthumanistic media studies, that dissolves the concept of media into a network of operations, that reproduce, process and reflect the distinctions that are fundamental for a given culture, e.g. the anthropological difference, the distinctions between natural object and cultural sign, noise and information, eye and gaze"--
Abstract:
"This volume designates a shift within posthumanistic media studies, that dissolves the concept of media into a network of operations, that reproduce, process and reflect the distinctions that are fundamental for a given culture, e.g. the anthropological difference, the distinctions between natural object and cultural sign, noise and information, eye and gaze"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Machine generated contents note:Acknowledgments 000 -- Translator's Note 000 -- Introduction: Cultural techniques, or, The end of the intellectual postwar in German media theory -- 1. Cacography or Communication? Cultural techniques of sign-signal-distinction -- 2. Eating Animals-Eating God-Eating Man: Variations on the Last Supper, or, The cultural techniques of communion -- 3. Parlêtres: The cultural techniques of anthropological difference -- 4. Medusas of the western Pacific: The cultural techniques of seafaring -- 5. Pasajeros a Indias: Registers and biographical writing as cultural techniques of subject constitution (Spain, 16th century) -- 6. (Not) in Place: The grid, or, cultural techniques of ruling spaces -- 7. White spots and hearts of darkness: Drafting, projecting and designing as cultural techniques -- 8. Waterlines: Striated and smooth spaces as techniques of ship design -- 9. Figures of self-reference: A media genealogy of the trompe-l'Doeil in 17th-century Dutch still life -- 10. Door Logic, or, The materiality of the symbolic: From cultural techniques to cybernetic machines.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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