Framing Uncertainty

Markus Rautzenberg is Professor of Philosophy at Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen, Germany. Scholarships include a DFG doctoral scholarship at the graduate school “Körper-Inszenierungen” (“The Staging of the Body”), DFG postdoctoral scholarship at the International Graduate School “InterArt,” and a research fellowship at Leuphana University Lueneburg. From 2009 to 2014, he served on the research staff at the Institute for Philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin, where he headed a DFG research project on “Evocation. Non-Visual Aspects of Iconicity.” His main fields of research include media theory, picture theory, theory and aesthetics of digital media, and epistemology. Recent publications include “Blendungen. Fotografische Selbstvergewisserung im Film,” in: Sybille Krämer, Sibylle Schmidt (Eds.): Zeugen in der Kunst, Paderborn 2016, (edited together with Juliane Schiffers) and Ungründe. Perspektiven prekärer Fundierung, Paderborn 2016.

• Chapter 1: Looking Glass.- Chapter 2: Noise, Disturbance, Perturbation: The Interplay between Transparency and Opacity as a Gameplay-Device in Silent Hill 2 (2005).- Chapter 3: Not-Ready-To-Hand or How Media become obtrusive.- Chapter 4: Ludic Mediality: Aesthetic Experience in Computer Games.- Chapter 5: Caves, Caverns and Dungeons. Speleological Aesthetics in Computer Games.- Chapter 6: Just Making Images: Evocation in Computer Games. Index.