Traffic

Media as Infrastructures and Cultural Practices

AvMarion Näser-Lather

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

Del 88 i serien At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries

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Beskrivning

Traffic: Media as Infrastructures and Cultural Practices presents a collection of texts by distinguished international media and cultural scholars that addresses fundamental relationships between the logistic, symbolic, and infrastructural dimensions of media. The volume discusses the role of traffic and infrastructures within the history of media theory as well as in a broader cultural context: Traffic is shown to constitute an important epistemological and technical principle, a paradigm for exchanges and circulations between discoursive and non-discoursive cultural practices. This opens an encompassing perspective of media ecology, and at the same time illuminates the formative power of traffic as structuring time and space: material and informational traffic creates, maintains, and undermines power, configures meaning, and facilitates appropriation and resistance.Contributors are: Menahem Blondheim, Grant David Bollmer, Richard Cavell, Wolf-Dieter Ernst, Norm Friesen, Elihu Katz, Peter Krapp, Martina Leeker, Jana Mangold, John Durham Peters, Gabriele Schabacher, Michael Steppat, Wolfgang Sützl, Hartmut Winkler

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-09-25
Mått:155 x 235 x 17 mm
Vikt:425 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries
Antal sidor:259
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004299801

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Mer om författaren

Marion Näser-Lather, Dr. phil., is postdoc researcher at the Institute of European Ethnology/ Cultural Science at Philipps University Marburg, Germany, and board member of the “Society for Social Responsibility in Science” (GVW e.V.). Her research interests include activist movement studies, Mediterranean studies, net cultures, and infrastructure.Christoph Neubert, Dr. phil., is lecturer for media history at the Department of Media Studies at the University of Paderborn, Germany, and senior member of the research training group “Automatisms.” His research interests include media theory and history, traffic and logistics, and the history of ecology.

Innehållsförteckning

Marion Näser-Lather and Christoph Neubert: Traffic – Media as Infrastructures and Cultural Practices: IntroductionSection 1: Theorizing TrafficJohn Durham Peters: Infrastructuralism: Media as Traffic Between Nature and CultureGabriele Schabacher: Traffic as ‘Dirt Experience’: Harold Innis’s Tracing of MediaJana Mangold: Traffic of Metaphor: Transport and Media at the Beginning of Media TheoryHartmut Winkler: Traces: Does Traffic Retroact on the Media Infrastructure?Section 2: Traffic of ConceptsGrant David Bollmer: Technobiological Traffic: Networks, Bodies, and the Management of VitalityNorm Friesen: Dewey’s Cosmic Traffic: Politics and Pedagogy as CommunicationRichard Cavell: McLuhan, Turing, and the Question of DeterminismMartina Leeker and Michael Steppat: Data Traffic in Theater and Engineering: Between Technical Conditions and IllusionsSection 3: Time, Space, and PowerMenahem Blondheim and Elihu Katz: Communications in an Ancient Empire: An Innisian Reading of the Book of EstherPeter Krapp: Nomads of the Technical SublimeWolfgang Suetzl: Street Protests, Electronic Disturbance, Smart Mobs: Dislocations of ResistanceWolf-Dieter Ernst: Performing Traffic: On Mobile Aesthetics in Contemporary Theater and Travel