Technics (eBook, ePUB)

Media in the Digital Age
Redaktion: Baer, Nicholas; Oever, Annie

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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, Gilbert Simondon, and Sylvia Wynter in conjunction with urgent questions concerning algorithmic media, digital infrastructures, generative AI, and geoengineering. An expansive collection of writings on media technologies in the digital age, Technics is an essential resource for students and scholars of film and media studies, digital humanities, science and technology studies, and the philosophy of technology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040782378
• Artikelnr.: 75562928

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Baer is Assistant Professor of German at the University of California, Berkeley, with affiliations in Film & Media, Critical Theory, and Jewish Studies. He is author of Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism and coeditor of The Promise of Cinema: German Film Theory, 1907-1933 and Unwatchable. Annie van den Oever is a Professor of Film at the University of Groningen and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg (since March 2024). Recent books: Doing Experimental Media Archaeology. Theory(De Gruyter, 2022, with Andreas Fickers); and Visual Media, Distortions, and the Grotesque as a Dominant Format Today (AUP 2024, forthcoming).

Inhaltsangabe

Editorial
Acknowledgements
PART I Questions Concerning Technics
1. Technics: An Introduction - Nicholas Baer and Annie van den Oever
2. Ten Statements on Technics - André Brock
Dominique Chateau
Beth Coleman
Shane Denson
Amanda Egbe
Yuriko Furuhata
Tom Gunning
Jeffrey West Kirkwood
Laura Mulvey
and Jean-Christophe Plantin
PART II Philosophies of Technology
3. Machine Aesthetics: Animation through Technology
Animation of Technology - Gertrud Koch
4. New Stars Were Rising in the Sky: On Benjamin's Concept of Cosmic Experience and Technology Around 1930 - Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky
5. Instructions for Use: Thinking Body
Machine
and Technicity with Simondon - Benoît Turquety
6. Knowing
Studying
Writing: A Conversation on History
Practice
and Other Doings with Technics - Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal and Bernhard Siegert
PART III Theories of Media
7. Protective Media - Francesco Casetti
8. Carried Away: The Carrier Bag Theory of Media - Yijun Sun and Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan
9. Beyond Access: Transforming Ableist Techno-Worlds - Neta Alexander and Jonathan Sterne
PART IV Archaeologies of Media
10. Coming to Terms with the Smart Phone - Wanda Strauven
11. The Afterlife of an Optical Device
or Making the Lantern Kosher - Doron Galili
PART V Filmic Techniques
12. Theories of the Frame and Framing in Cinema: A Genealogy - Ariel Rogers
13. Split Screens: A Discussion with Catherine Grant
Malte Hagener
and Katharina Loew - Nicholas Baer and Annie van den Oever
14. Specks of Time: Digital Editing and Verse Jumping in Everything Everywhere All at Once - Kartik Nair
PART VI Digital Humanities
15. Streams
Portals
and Data Flows: Digital Infrastructures of Film Studies - Malte Hagener
16. Six Memos for the New Millennium: A Dialogue with Andreas Fickers on Epistemic Virtues in the Digital Humanities - Annie van den Oever.