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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.
Go to bookSticky 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.
Go to bookComputation 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.
Go to bookDebris
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.
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Praktiken, Verfahren und Episteme des Selfpublishings in Kunst, Literatur und Wissenschaft treten heute konkurrierend neben die institutionalisierte Publikationslandschaft. Dieser Band schlägt vor, die ‚Banalität‘ als wesentliches Merkmal des digitalen Selbstpublizierens zu begreifen.
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The 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 seriesThe 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 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.
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.
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