Non-Knowledge

Digital Cultures

Making available massive amounts of data that are generated, distributed, and modeled, digital media provide us with the possibility of abundant information and knowledge. This possibility has been attracting various scenarios in which technology either eliminates non-knowledge or plants it deep within contemporary cultures through the universal power and opacity of algorithms.

Non-Knowledge and Digital Cultures

Making available massive amounts of data that are generated, distributed, and modeled, digital media provide us with the possibility of abundant information and knowledge. This possibility has been attracting various scenarios in which technology either eliminates non-knowledge or plants it deep within contemporary cultures through the universal power and opacity of algorithms. This volume comprises contributions from media studies, literary studies, sociology, ethnography, anthropology, and philosophy to discuss non-knowledge as an important concept for understanding contemporary digital cultures.

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Publishing Year
2018
Language
English
Pages
160
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978-3-95796-125-9 (Print)
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10.14619/1259
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The Editors

Andreas Bernard is professor of cultural studies and speaker at the Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University Lüneburg. Publications include Lifted. A Cultural History of the Elevator. New York 2014; Komplizen des Erkennungsdienstes. Das Selbst in der digitalen Kultur. Frankfurt am Main 2017.

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Matthias Koch is a research associate at the Institute for Advanced Study on Media Cultures of Computer Simulation (MECS) in Lüneburg, Germany. His research interests include the history and theory of media historiography, the history of science, phenomenology, and the works of Friedrich A. Kittler and Hans Blumenberg.

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Martina Leeker has a background in theatre studies, media studies, theatre practice, and performance. She held an assistant professorship in theatre and media at the University of Bayreuth from 2002 to 2010 and was a senior researcher at Leuphana University Lüneburg’s Centre for Digital Cultures from 2013 until autumn 2018. Her research interests include theatre/performance and media, art and technology, systems engineering, infrastructures, the history of fascination with digital cultures, and methods and critique in digital cultures. As part of her academic work, Leeker is building on research with artistic methods, in particular performative methods, within lecture-performances
and speculation labs.

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