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

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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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Computation must and has always had to “reckon with everything.” This volume brings together contributions that seek to describe the environmentality of computation based on selected settings.

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Debris

In geology, the term sediment refers to organic or mineral particles that were set in motion and transported to a new location by air, water, or ice. Today, new sediments are emerging that challenge traditional concepts of geological processes. From Debris to Sediment addresses the rising relevance of these residues.

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Highlighting the diverse and fragmentary nature of the so-called “digital turn,” this volume offers a glimpse into the landscape of different computing cultures. Go to book

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Encounter in the Archive

The chance discovery of a collection of decaying, rusted film materials in the dusty rooms of the semi-abandoned old Colonial Film Unit in Lagos leads to this manifesto about archival interventions on…

Kritik postdigital

Die realpolitische Affirmation der Universalität des Digitalen geht mit einer regelrechten Abwehr der kritischen Reflexion seiner scheinbaren Axiome einher. Umso dringlicher ist es zu fragen: Was sind die Bedingungen und Möglichkeiten von…

Mediale Teilhabe

Gesellschaftliche, politische und wissenschaftliche Forderungen nach mehr Beteiligung, Zugang und Mitwirkung sind ebenso allgegenwärtig wie spannungsgeladen und durchzogen von Ambivalenzen. Mediale Teilhabe fragt nach den medialen Ermöglichungs- und Austauschprozessen, als deren Effekt…

Unterwachen und Schlafen

Anthropophile Medien durchdringen zunehmend unsere lebensweltliche Realität, sei es im Ambient Assisted Living, als Pflegeassistenzsysteme, in den Arbeitsszenarien einer Industrie 4.0, als behagliche Interfaces des Affective Computing oder als Lifetracker der Quantified-Self-Bewegung….

Children Reinventing Cinema

Children today discover a new digital drawing tool, the camera-crayon, at a very young age. They appropriate devices such as compact cameras and mobile phones and make their own media artifacts in…

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…

Counter-Dancing Digitality

Digitality is imposed upon us! To change this, we should not turn away from it, but look carefully into its transformative power and make operable alternatives such as counter-algorhythms and solidarity-oriented commoning….

Gefühle Vermessen

Seit Anfang der 2010er Jahre beschäftigt sich das Affective Computing mit der Entwicklung von digitalen Technologien zur automatischen Erfassung menschlicher Gefühle. Das sogenannte emotion detection operiert auf Grundlage des Facial Action Coding…

Fragile Evidenz

Pushbacks finden systematisch an den EU-Außengrenzen statt. Von offizieller Seite wird ihr Einsatz geheim gehalten oder geleugnet. Fragile Evidenz stellt die Frage, wie aus einem gescheiterten Fluchtversuch eine aussagekräftige Falldarstellung europäischer Grenzregime…

Communication

Machine communication—to interact not just via but also with machines—has transformed contemporary communication. It puts us not just in conversation with one another but also with our current machinery. By analyzing the…

Trick 17

Der Zauber der Medien speist sich aus ihrem Geheimnis: Den Usern von heute sind Laptop, Smartphone oder Tablet eine Blackbox, die ihre Sinne im Bann hält und die Techniktricks im Inneren hinter…

Remain

In a world undergoing constant media-driven change, the infrastructures, materialities, and temporalities of remains have become urgent. This book engages with the remains and remainders of media cultures through the lens both…

Zonen

Die Erde befindet sich in einem vom Menschen bewirkten, tiefgreifenden Veränderungsprozess. Um dieses dringliche Problem neu anzugehen, nehmen die Autor*innen dieses Bandes den Begriff der „Zone“ zum Ausgangspunkt für eine kritische Ökologie.

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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….

Ecology of Affect

The way we conceive the human today is particularly affected by the shifts in media technology during the 20th century. Affect emerges as the new liminal concept that renders the body compatible…

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…

Guantánamo Frames

For the last twenty years, the Guantánamo Bay detention camp has not just been a military prison and security facility, but also a site of media production. Films, photographs, and documents have…

Tacit Cinematic Knowledge

Moving images are increasingly finding their way into laboratories, dentist offices, clinics, airports and gyms. In these places and institutions film and moving image technologies serve to advance knowledge, to show how…

Distributed Productivities

Digital distribution produces new global cultural flows from urban centers like Lagos, Mumbai or Seoul. But it also enables new forms of distributed production in which cultural entrepreneurs cooperate across continents and…

Rethinking Gamification

Gamification marks a major change to everyday life. It describes the permeation of economic, political, and social contexts by game-elements such as awards, rule structures, and interfaces that are inspired by video…

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