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Chronopoetics is not about media history, but offers a close reading of the signal realities of our times. Written by leading media theorist Wolfgang Ernst, this inspiring and provocative book cuts across so-called old and new media as well as between technical details and contemporary theory. Media philosophy unfolds as a microcosmos of temporalities. -- Jussi Parikka, Professor in Technological Culture & Aesthetics, Winchester School of Art/University of Southampton, author of Insect Media.

Chronopoetics is not about media history, but offers a close reading of the signal realities of our times. Written by leading media theorist Wolfgang Ernst, this inspiring and provocative book cuts across so-called old and new media as well as between technical details and contemporary theory. Media philosophy unfolds as a microcosmos of temporalities. -- Jussi Parikka, University of Southampton, author of A Geology of Media. Wolfgang Ernst's Chronopoetics is a voice from the white-hot core of the machine universe. He follows the things themselves with a relentlessness unmatched by any media theorist since Harold Innis. In focusing on signals that shuttle through our technical and natural systems at speeds too fast and intervals too small to be perceived by a human subject, Ernst might, at first, seem provocatively inhumane. But in the end his revelation of the poetics of time-critical processes offers its own stark enlightenment -- John Durham Peters, A. Craig Baird Professor, The University of Iowa

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Wolfgang Ernst is Professor of Media Theories at the Institute of Musicology and Media Studies, Humboldt University, Germany. His many publications include Digital Memory and the Archive (2013). Anthony Enns, the translator, is Associate Professor of English at Dalhousie University, Canada.

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