Cultural techniques : grids, filters, doors, and other articulations of the real / Bernhard Siegert ; translated by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Siegert, Bernhard, author.

Contributor:

Winthrop-Young, Geoffrey, 1960- translator.

Series:

Meaning systems

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Mass media and culture.

Physical Description:

xiv, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, [2015]

Summary:

"This volume designates a shift within posthumanistic media studies, that dissolves the concept of media into a network of operations, that reproduce, process and reflect the distinctions that are fundamental for a given culture, e.g. the anthropological difference, the distinctions between natural object and cultural sign, noise and information, eye and gaze"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

Acknowledgments 000

Translator's Note 000

Introduction: Cultural techniques, or, The end of the intellectual postwar in German media theory

1. Cacography or Communication? Cultural techniques of sign-signal-distinction

2. Eating Animals-Eating God-Eating Man: Variations on the Last Supper, or, The cultural techniques of communion

3. Parlêtres: The cultural techniques of anthropological difference

4. Medusas of the western Pacific: The cultural techniques of seafaring

5. Pasajeros a Indias: Registers and biographical writing as cultural techniques of subject constitution (Spain, 16th century)

6. (Not) in Place: The grid, or, cultural techniques of ruling spaces

7. White spots and hearts of darkness: Drafting, projecting and designing as cultural techniques

8. Waterlines: Striated and smooth spaces as techniques of ship design

9. Figures of self-reference: A media genealogy of the trompe-l'Doeil in 17th-century Dutch still life

10. Door Logic, or, The materiality of the symbolic: From cultural techniques to cybernetic machines.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-260) and index.

ISBN:

9780823263752

0823263754

9780823263769

0823263762

OCLC:

900608911