Customizing

Das Internationale Jahrbuch für Medienphilosophie und Medienästhetik nimmt Customizing als zentrale Kategorie gegenwärtiger Medienkulturen in den Blick. Die Beiträge untersuchen, wie sich ästhetische Erfahrung, epistemische Ordnung und soziale Öffentlichkeit unter Bedingungen datenbasierter und KI-gestützter Medien verschieben.

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Dieser Band untersucht Misogynie und Transfeindlichkeit, Rassismus und Faschismus unter digitalen Bedingungen und ordnet diese Gewaltformen mithilfe intersektionaler Theorien ein.

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Vector

Media

Vector Media moves the debate of critical artificial intelligence studies away from generated outputs and toward internal mechanisms as the decisive sites where cultural logics are encoded.

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In interviews with leading scholars, curators and archivists this volume re-examines the legacies of internationalist solidarity in the cinema.

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Distributed

In the “new world order of cultural production” (Fatima Bhutto) cultural specificity is no longer a matter of physical location, but of digital transcreation, the transport of meaning across multiple cultural contexts.

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Sticky Films brings the material and conceptual dimensions of stickiness into conversation, looking for intentional and sometimes unwanted sticky residues in film and media cultures. The chapters explore the feelings of stickiness, sticky modes of being, as well as representations or traces of stickiness in audiovisual media.

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Digital Energetics

Media and energy require joint theorization as they are bound together across contemporary informational and fossil regimes. Digital Energetics traces the contours of a media analytic of energy and an energy analytic…

Frictions

Frictions is a collective invitation to embrace the space of difference that both connects and separates techno-scientific discourses from their actual implementations—or even, from their non-implementations. Through a series of case studies…

Digitale Gewalt

Digitale Gewalt, die sich in Form von Deepfakes, Doxing oder Voice Cloning gegen marginalisierte Gruppen richtet, ist politische Gewalt. Ihre gegenwärtige Konjunktur geht Hand in Hand mit der Proliferation rechter und faschistischer…

Medien verstehen

Medien in ihrer historischen und technischen Vielfalt zu verstehen, das war das Versprechen, das Marshall McLuhan vor über fünfzig Jahren mit Understanding Media gegeben hatte. Unsere digital veränderte Gegenwart erfordert, das Buch…

Sticky Films

Stickiness is ambiguous. Sometimes it is a problem, sometimes a solution. It holds a strong affective charge between arousal, lust and disgust. If something is sticky, it promises relation while also threatening…

Die verschiedenen Modi der Existenz

„Wäre die Philosophie auch nur eine Stunde der Mühe wert, wenn sie uns nicht für das Leben rüstete?“ Gezielten Schrittes entwirft der französische Philosoph Étienne Souriau in diesem dicht gedrängten Buch eine…

Alleys of Your Mind

What does thinking mean in the age of Artificial Intelligence? How is big-scale computation transforming the way our brains function? This collection discusses these pressing questions by looking beyond instrumental rationality. Exploring…

Interventions in Digital Cultures

How to intervene? Interventions are in vogue in digital cultures as forms of critique or political actions into public spheres. By engaging in social, political, and economic contexts, interventions attempt to interrupt…

In Catastrophic Times

There has been an epochal shift: the possibility of a global climate crisis is now upon us. Pollution, the poison of pesticides, the exhaustion of natural resources, falling water tables, growing social…

Customizing: Konfigurationen medialer Anpassung

Digitale Medien sind heute weniger Werkzeuge der Produktion als Systeme der Anpassung. Unter dem Begriff des Customizing bündeln sich Praktiken der Personalisierung, Konfiguration und kuratierten Auswahl, die Wahrnehmung, Handlung und Subjektivität grundlegend…

Digital Activism in Asia Reader

The digital turn might as well be marked as an Asian turn. From flash-mobs in Taiwan to feminist mobilisations in India, from hybrid media strategies of Syrian activists to cultural protests in Thailand, we see…

Boundary Images

How are images made, and how should we understand the capacities of digital images? This book investigates images as well as the technologies that host them. Its three chapters discuss the boundaries…

Democratic Algorithms

Can an algorithm be democratic? And how can we understand algorithms not only as technical, but also as social and political phenomena? Democratic Algorithms offers theoretically and empirically informed perspectives on how…

Interferences and Events

Computer simulations are omnipresent media in today’s knowledge production. For scientific endeavors such as the detection of gravitational waves and the exploration of subatomic worlds, simulations are essential; however, the epistemic status…

Who Owns the Images?

Digitization carries the utopian promise of archival access unlimited by constraints of space and time, and with it, of new forms of research and historiographies. In reality, digital image archives pose a…

High Definition

Dieses Buch zoomt in informationsreiche und pixeldichte Welten in HD. Digitalbildliche Hochauflösung ist hier ein Potenzial, das es ermöglicht, mit und an Bildern Wirklichkeit zu erforschen und zu befragen. Dokumentarfilme, Videokunstarbeiten, Galaxiefotografien,…

Nonconscious

Growing numbers of nonhuman companions (smart objects, technical environments, sensor technologies used to augment the human body) are creating affective synching between human and nonhuman agency. Unlike the unconscious of psychoanalysis, this…

Uexküll’s Surroundings

With its diversity of possible Umwelten or environments for living things, Jakob von Uexküll’s Umwelt theory has been hailed by many readers as the first step toward an innovative, pluralistic conception of nonhuman life….

Explorations in Digital Cultures

Digital media are transformative: they (re)shape the ways of communicating, relating, doing, knowing, and living as much as they are themselves subject to continuous transformation. The contributions in this volume explore these…

Accidental Archivism

In the digital media ecology, archives are changing. Artists, curators, critics and scholars assume the role of accidental archivists. They shape cinema’s futures by salvaging precarious repositories and making them matter in…

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