Media Matter

The Materiality of Media, Matter as Medium

AvBernd Herzogenrath

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

Launching Bloomsbury’s Thinking Media series, Media Matter introduces readers to the nascent field of media-philosophy. Contributors urge readers to re-adjust their ideas of Media Studies, by extending the understanding of "medium" to include a concept of materiality that also includes "non-human" transmitters (elements such as water, earth, fire, air) and also by understanding media not only in the context of cultural or discursive systems or apparatuses, relays, transistors, hardware or "discourse networks," but more inclusively, in terms of a "media ecology."Beginning with more general essays on media and then focusing on particular themes (neuroplasticity, photography, sculpture and music), especially in relation to film, Herzogenrath and the contributors redefine the concept of "medium" in order to think through media, rather than about them.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-02-23
Mått:140 x 216 x 18 mm
Vikt:381 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Thinking Media
Antal sidor:328
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781501320101

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Bernd Herzogenrath is Professor of American Studies at the University of Frankfurt, Germany.

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media|matter continues the important work on materiality of media. The chapters offer inspiring and rich analyses into how voice and sound, film and text open up to realities unthought of. The book is an important addition to the growing body of work on new materialism and is of interest to sound, film and media studies students and scholars.

Innehållsförteckning

Media Matter: An IntroductionBernd Herzogenrath (Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany)Theory-MatterChapter 1: The Meta-Physics of MediaWalter Seitter (University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria)Chapter 2: Media Matter: Materiality and Performativity in Media TheoryKaterina Krtilova (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany)Text-MatterChapter 3: Between Print Matter and Page Matter: The Codex Platform as Media SuppoortGarrett Stewart (University of Iowa, USA)Chapter 4: 'Local Color': Light in Faulkner Hanjo Berressem (University of Cologne, Germany)Film-MatterChapter 5: Figure-Ground: Stills from the Films of Bill Morrison Bill Morrison (Hypnotic Pictures)Chapter 6: Matter that Images: Bill Morrison's DecasiaBernd Herzogenrath (Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany)Chapter 7: Moving Images as Ontographic ImagesLorenz Engell (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany)Chapter 8: Brain Matter and New Phrenologies; Challenging Brains with Melancholy and Vice VersaBenjamin Betka (Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany)Chapter 9: The Media Boundary Objects Concept: Theorizing Film and Media Florian Hoof (Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany)Art-MatterChapter 10: Borderline: Nauman’s Balls and Acconci’s ShootEva Ehninger (University of Bern, Switzerland)Chapter 11: The Romantic Readymade: Towards a Material Vitalism of Contemporary ArtStephen Zepke (University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria)Sound-MatterChapter 12: Revisiting the Voice in Media and as Medium: New Materialist PropositionsMilla Tiainen (University of Helsinki, Finland)Chapter 13: Sonic Matter: The Material Cut-Ups of Christian MarclaySebastian Scherer (Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany)Chapter 14: Media Disenchantments Thomas Köner (Composer, Sound-Artist, Belgrade, Serbia, and Nice, France)