Anthropologies of Entanglements

Christiane Voss is Professor of Philosophy of Audiovisual Media at the Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany. Important publications include Die Relevanz der Irrelevanz (2021), together with Lorenz Engell, Der Leihkörper (2013), and Narrative Emotions (2003). Lorenz Engell is Professor of Media Philosophy at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany, where he was the founding dean of the Faculty of Media from 1996-2000 and co-director of the International Research Center for Cultural Techniques and Media Philosophy (IKKM) from 2008-2020.Tim Othold is a research associate at the postgraduate program for Media Anthropology at Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany.

Anthropologies of Entanglement develops a new and inspiring approach to understanding our contemporary condition of the “Mediocene”, in which the human and natural spheres are indissolubly intertwined with and permeated by media. Its key word, “Anthropomediality,” convincingly suggests to conceive the human existence as mediatic; the relation comes before the related. The 16 contributions by international authors from a broad variety of fields brilliantly discuss the entanglements that precede all forms of reification and anthropogenesis.

• AcknowledgementsAnthropologies of Entanglements: An Introduction Christiane Voss, Lorenz Engell, Tim Othold (Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany)I. Milieus1. Existing in Motion: Foundations for a Philosophical Media-Anthropology Christiane Voss (Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany)2. Tangled Efforts and Middle-Voiced Verbs Jane Bennett (Johns Hopkins University, USA)3. The Experience-Image and Collaborative Filmmaking – From Visual Anthropology to Media-Anthropological Practices Julia Bee (University of Siegen, Germany)4. A Life in the Interstices: Micropolitics and Aesthetics in Everyday Life Christoph Carsten (Independent Scholar, Germany)II. Practice and Process5. Prosthesis for Feeling: Intensifying Potentiality through MediaMark B.N. Hansen (Duke University, USA)6. Chemæra Jason Pine (Independent Scholar, USA)7. In Control of Algorithms: Video Analytics and Human-machine Relations at the Train Station Gabriele Schabacher (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany)8. On the Anthropology of the mode double click Lorenz Engell (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany)9. Neutral Time Philip Gries (Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany)III. Bodies in Media10. Unfolding Bodies. Art and Ontology of the American Northwest Coast Bernhard Siegert (Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany)11. Corporeal Literacy: Alphabetic Bodies and the Logic of the CutMaaike Bleeker (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)12.Torn, Crushed, Shredded. The Reconstruction of Wounded Bodies in World War I Johanna Seifert (FernUniversität, Germany)13. Material Dialectics of the Hard BodyIvo Ritzer (University of Bayreuth, Germany)14. She is Inseminating: On the Secret of Life in Claire Denis’s Science Fiction Film High Life (2018)Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)ContributorsIndex