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To possess something is to lose something: Starting from this seemingly contradictory claim this essay invokes various registers to defamiliarize the ways in which property structures subjectivity, world relations and affects.
Go to bookThe Making of Les Immatériaux provides the first comprehensive account of the preparations of Les Immatériaux, detailing how the exhibition emerged from collaborations in such diverse fields as contemporary art, architecture, science, and network media.
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Expanding on a media-archaeological approach to film history, this book maps children’s playful and imaginative knowledge of contemporary media culture and explores their filmmaking practices that push the boundaries of forms and formats.
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Platforms and the Moving Image offers a multifaceted look at how digital platforms shape and are shaped by economic, cultural, and political forces. The collection examines the effects of gaming, social media, streaming and videosharing platforms on the production, circulation, and consumption of moving images.
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Wie kann aus einem gescheiterten Fluchtversuch eine aussagekräftige Falldarstellung europäischer Grenzregime werden? Eine zehnminütige Videoinvestigation der Rechercheagentur Forensic Architecture erweist sich als Symptom für die Krisen politischen Auftretens in digitalen Medien.
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The series Configurations of Film presents pointed interventions by emerging and established international scholars associated with the DFG-funded Graduate Research Training Program (Graduiertenkolleg) “Konfigurationen des Films” at Goethe University Frankfurt.
Go to seriesEdited by members of the CDC, the aim of the book series Digital Cultures is to think through the relationship of routines, information flows, communication acts and spaces of action with digital technologies.
Go to seriesThe Future Ecologies series investigates emerging ecologies in uncertain worlds—ecologies that are open to the interests of other-than-humans and that care for plural modes of existence. It advocates for interdisciplinary approaches towards the numerous aspects of ecology.
Go to seriesWhat are the terms under which media is produced, and how does media impact and change these terms? By pairing up scholars from North America and Europe, this series advances media theory by obviating the gap that exists across language barriers in order to rethink and re-imagine what media can and must do.
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