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29 produkter
Errant Intelligence
A Media Theory of Machine Learning
Häftad, 2026
601 kr
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Artificial intelligence is often framed as a quest to replicate the human brain, promising frictionless cognition and a future of seamless automation. But what if this pervasive narrative obscures a deeper, more “errant” truth?Errant Intelligence challenges the prevailing biological and …
American Folk Music as Tactical Media
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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American folk music has long presented a problematic conception of authenticity, but the reality of the folk scene, and its relationship to media, is far more complicated. This book draws on the fields of media archaeology, performance studies, and sound studies to explore the various modes of …
Archive, Photography and the Language of Administration
Av Jane Birkin
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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This alternative study of archive and photography brings many types of image assemblages into view, always in relation to the regulated systems operating within the institutional milieu. The archive catalogue is presented as a critical tool for mapping image time, and the language of image …
Cinema, Trance and Cybernetics
Av Ute Holl
Häftad, 2025
686 kr
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We've all had the experience of watching a film and feeling like we've been in a trance. This book takes that experience seriously, explaining cinema as a cultural technique of trance, one that unconsciously transforms our perceptions. Ute Holl moves from anthropological and experimental cinema …
Engines of Order
A Mechanology of Algorithmic Techniques
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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Software has become a key component of contemporary life and algorithms that rank, classify, or recommend are everywhere. Building on the philosophy of Gilbert Simondon and the cultural techniques tradition, this book examines the constructive and cumulative character of software and retraces the …
Guerrilla Networks
An Anarchaeology of 1970s Radical Media Ecologies
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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The radical youth movements of the 1960s and '70s gave rise to both militant political groups ranging from urban guerrilla groups to autonomist counterculture, as well as radical media, including radio, music, film, video, and television. This book is concerned with both of those tendencies …
List Cultures
Knowledge and Poetics from Mesopotamia to BuzzFeed
Av Liam Young
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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We live in an age of lists, from magazine features to online clickbait. This book situates the list in a long tradition, asking key questions about the list as a cultural and communicative form. What, Liam Cole Young asks, can this seemingly innocuous form tell us about historical and contemporary …
Media Infrastructures and the Politics of Digital Time
Essays on Hardwired Temporalities
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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In a crucial sense, all machines are time machines. The essays in Media Infrastructures and the Politics of Digital Time develop the central concept of hardwired temporalities to consider how technical networks hardwire and rewire patterns of time. Digital media introduce new temporal patterns in …
Memory in Motion
Archives, Technology, and the Social
Av Ina Blom, Trond Lundemo m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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How do new media affect the question of social memory? Social memory is usually described as enacted through ritual, language, art, architecture, and institutions ? Phenomena whose persistence over time and capacity for a shared storage of the past was set in contrast to fleeting individual memory. …
New Media Archaeologies
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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This collection of essays highlights innovative work in the developing field of media archaeology. It explores the relationship between theory and practice and the relationship between media archaeology and other disciplines. There are three sections to the collection proposing new possible fields …
Remediating McLuhan
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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While current scholarly interest has assured Marshall McLuhan's (1911-80) foundational status as a media theorist, much room still exists for further exploration of his writings, which have taken on additional layers of significance in our contemporary digital moment. Holding that media were …
Sonic Time Machines
Explicit Sound, Sirenic Voices, and Implicit Sonicity
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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Our studies of aesthetics and knowledge have long tended to privilege the visual - at the expense, Wolfgang Ernst argues, of the aural. Sonic Time Machines aims to correct that, presenting a striking new approach to theorising sound that investigates its split existence: as a temporal effect in a …
Zootechnologies
A Media History of Swarm Research
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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Swarming has become a fundamental cultural technique related to dynamic processes and an effective metaphor for the collaborative efforts of society. This book examines the media history of swarm research and its significance to current socio-technological processes. It shows that the hype about …
Cinema, Trance and Cybernetics
Av Ute Holl
Inbunden, 2017
2666 kr
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Ute Holl moves from anthropological and experimental cinema through nineteenth-century psychological laboratories, which she shows developed techniques for testing, measuring, and classifying the mind that can be seen as a prehistory of cinema
Medium, Messenger, Transmission
An Approach to Media Philosophy
Inbunden, 2015
2264 kr
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Medium, Messenger, Transmission uses the figure of the messenger as a key metaphor for the function of all transmission media.
Sacred Channels
The Archaic Illusion of Communication
Av Erich Hörl
Häftad, 2018
1040 kr
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This book is an original take on the history of communication theory and the cultural imaginary of communication understood through the notions of holy and the primitive.
Guerrilla Networks
An Anarchaeology of 1970s Radical Media Ecologies
Inbunden, 2018
2133 kr
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This book examines radical media ecologies as guerrilla networks, emphasising the proximity and inseparability of radical media and political practices.
Sonic Time Machines
Explicit Sound, Sirenic Voices, and Implicit Sonicity
Inbunden, 2016
1940 kr
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Sonic Time Machines presents a striking new approach to theorising sound that investigates its split existence: as a temporal effect in a techno-cultural context and as a source of knowledge and information.
Remediating McLuhan
Inbunden, 2016
2133 kr
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This collection of essays considers McLuhan's ground-breaking approach within a number of new contexts and explores the distinguishing features of his media theory.
List Cultures
Knowledge and Poetics from Mesopotamia to BuzzFeed
Av Liam Young
Inbunden, 2017
2133 kr
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This volume makes a major contribution to debates about New Materialism and the post-human turn.
Memory in Motion
Archives, Technology, and the Social
Av Ina Blom, Trond Lundemo m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
2586 kr
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This collection offers a set of essays that discuss the new technology of memory from a variety of perspectives that explicitly investigate their impact on the very concept of the social.
New Media Archaeologies
Inbunden, 2019
1827 kr
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This collection of essays highlights innovative work in the developing field of media archaeology. It explores the relationship between theory and practice and the relationship between media archaeology and other disciplines. There are three sections to the collection proposing new possible fields …
Medium, Messenger, Transmission
An Approach to Media Philosophy
Häftad, 2016
811 kr
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This rich study provides a comprehensive introduction to media philosophy while offering a new perspective on the concept and function of transmission media in all systems of exchange. Krämer uses the figure of the messenger as a key metaphor, examining a diverse range of transmission events, …
American Folk Music as Tactical Media
Inbunden, 2017
2133 kr
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This book draws on the fields of media archaeology, performance studies, and sound studies to explore the various modes of communication that can be uncovered from the long American folk revival.
Engines of Order
A Mechanology of Algorithmic Techniques
Inbunden, 2020
2512 kr
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Building on the philosophy of Gilbert Simondon and the cultural techniques tradition, this book examines the constructive and cumulative character of software and retraces the historical trajectories of a series of algorithmic techniques that have become the building blocks for contemporary …
Zootechnologies
A Media History of Swarm Research
Inbunden, 2019
2512 kr
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This book examines the media history of swarm research and its significance to current socio-technological processes.
Errant Intelligence
A Media Theory of Machine Learning
Inbunden, 2026
2441 kr
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Artificial intelligence is often framed as a quest to replicate the human brain, promising frictionless cognition and a future of seamless automation. But what if this pervasive narrative obscures a deeper, more “errant” truth?Errant Intelligence challenges the prevailing biological and …
Media Infrastructures and the Politics of Digital Time
Essays on Hardwired Temporalities
Inbunden, 2021
2133 kr
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In a crucial sense, all machines are time machines. The essays in Media Infrastructures and the Politics of Digital Time develop the central concept of hardwired temporalities to consider how technical networks hardwire and rewire patterns of time.
Archive, Photography and the Language of Administration
Av Jane Birkin
Inbunden, 2021
2197 kr
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This alternative study of archive and photography brings many types of image assemblages into view, always in relation to the regulated systems operating within the institutional milieu. Functioning at the intersection of text and image, the book combines media culture, archival techniques, and …
