Variations on media thinking / Siegfried Zielinski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zielinski, Siegfried, author.

Series:

Posthumanities ; 52.

Posthumanities ; 52

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Historiography.

Mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (457 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]

Summary:

A diverse, enriching volume of media analysis from a pioneering thinker in the field Expanding on Siegfried Zielinski's groundbreaking inquiry into "deep time" of the media, the essays in Variations on Media Thinking further the eminent media theorist's unique method of expanded hermeneutics , which means for him interpreting technical artifacts as essential parts of our cultural lives. Covering such topics as the televisualized "Holocaust," the ubiquity of media today, the Internet, the genealogy of sound art, and history's first hacker movement, these essays further diversify Zielinski's insight into the hidden layers of media development, which he first articulated in his pioneering work Deep Time of the Media . Including many previously untranslated and scarce essays, these "written time machines" open new lines of investigation for cultural scholars. From the automata of the Arabic-Islamic Renaissance (800-1200) to the largest and loudest techno-event ever, known as The Symphony of Sirens--which transformed Baku in 1922 into an immense music box of modern noise-- Variations on Media Thinking covers Zielinski's inquiries since 1975. Richly illustrated and full of provocation, brilliant insight, and fascinating research, this volume is perfect for students of media archaeology, philosophy, and technology, as well as any adventurous, rigorous thinkers engaged with culture and media.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Generators of Surprise: Diverse Media Thinking

I. Provocations

1. History as Entertainment and Provocation: The TV Series Holocaust in West Germany

2. Media Archaeology: Searching for Different Orders of Envisioning

3. Seven Items on the Net

4. Toward a Dramaturgy of Differences

5. From Territories to Intervals: Some Preliminary Thoughts on the Economy of Time/the Time

6. On the Difficulty to Think Twofold in One with Nils Röller

7. The Art of Design: (Manifesto) On the State of Affairs and Their Agility

8. "Too Many Images!-We Have to React": Theses toward an Apparatical Prosthesis for Seeing-in the Context of Godard's Histoire(s) du cinéma

II. Particular Archaeologies

9. The Audiovisual Time Machine: Concluding Theses on the Cultural Technique of the Video Recorder

10. War and Media: Marginalia of a Genealogy, in Legends and Images

11. Theologi electrici: A Few Passages

12. Historic Modes of the Audiovisual Apparatus

13. "To All!" The Struggle of the German Workers Radio Movement, 1918-1933

14. Urban Music Box, Urban Hearing: Avraamov's Symphony of Sirens in Baku and Moscow, 1922-1923-A Media-Archaeological Miniature

15. How One Sees

16. Lüology, Techno-souls, Artificial Paradises: Fragments of an An-archaeology of Sound Arts

17. Designing and Revealing: Some Aspects of a Genealogy of Projection

18. Allah's Automata: Where Ancient Oriental Learning Intersects with Early Modern Europe. A Media-Archaeological Miniature by Way of Introduction

Publication History

Index

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Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4529-6069-0