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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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….

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…

30 Years After Les Immatériaux: Art, Science and Theory

In 1985, the French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard curated a groundbreaking exhibition called Les Immatériaux at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The exhibition showed how telecommunication technologies were beginning to impact every aspect of life. At…

Symptoms of the Planetary Condition

This book explores the future of critique in view of our planetary condition. How are we to intervene in contemporary constellations of finance capitalism, climate change and neoliberalism? Think we must! To…

Archives

Archives have become a nexus in the wake of the digital turn. This book sets out to show how expanded archival practices can challenge contemporary conceptions and inform the redistribution of power…

Elementare Ekstasen

Elementare Ekstasen überschwemmen, erodieren und evaporieren die wohlsortierten Grenzziehungen zwischen Technik, Umwelt und Mensch. Als Neuverortung im Spannungsfeld medienökologischer, neomaterialistischer und technikfeministischer Theoriebildung werden hier all jene Widerständigkeiten und Un/Verfügbarkeiten sondiert, die…

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…

Affective Transformations

The Affective Turn has lost its former innocence and euphoria. Affect Studies and its adjacent disciplines have now to prove that they can cope with the return of the affective real that…

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…

Vector Media

Neural networks are designed to dissolve all media into the vector space—a universal space of commensurability. In Vector Media, Leonardo Impett and Fabian Offert parse theories of automatic vision to trace contemporary…

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…

Pattern Discrimination

Algorithmic identity politics reinstate old forms of social segregation—in a digital world, identity politics is pattern discrimination. It is by recognizing patterns in input data that Artificial Intelligence algorithms create bias and…

The Political Structure of UK Broadcasting 1949-99

In 1999 David Elstein delivered a lecture series examining the evolvement of UK Broadcasting policy from 1949 to 1999. His sharp analysis is a valuable contribution to the post-war development of the British broadcasting system and unfolds many…

Format Matters

From TIFF files to TED talks, from book sizes to blues stations—the term “format” circulates in a staggering array of contexts and applies to entirely dissimilar objects and practices. How can such…

Containment

Containers are ubiquitous and inescapable. From handbags to houses, barrels to databases, captivating gameworlds to the “bag of stars” that Ursula Le Guin calls the universe, containers furnish infrastructures for living and…

The Politics of Micro-Decisions

Be it in the case of opening a website, sending an email, or high-frequency trading, bits and bytes of information have to cross numerous nodes at which micro-decisions are made. These decisions…

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…

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…

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…

Post-Cinematic Bodies

How is human embodiment transformed in an age of algorithms? How do post-cinematic media technologies such as AI, VR, and robotics target and re-shape our bodies? Post-Cinematic Bodies grapples with these questions…

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