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Author:   Nicholas Baer ,  Annie van den Oever
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
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9781041187059

ISBN 10:   104118705
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   01 December 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Editorial, Acknowledgements, PART I Questions Concerning Technics, 1. Technics: An Introduction - Nicholas Baer and Annie van den Oever, 2. Ten Statements on Technics - André Brock, Dominique Chateau, Beth Coleman, Shane Denson, Amanda Egbe, Yuriko Furuhata, Tom Gunning, Jeffrey West Kirkwood, Laura Mulvey, and Jean-Christophe Plantin, PART II Philosophies of Technology, 3. Machine Aesthetics: Animation through Technology, Animation of Technology - Gertrud Koch, 4. New Stars Were Rising in the Sky: On Benjamin's Concept of Cosmic Experience and Technology Around 1930 - Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky, 5. Instructions for Use: Thinking Body, Machine, and Technicity with Simondon - Benoît Turquety, 6. Knowing, Studying, Writing: A Conversation on History, Practice, and Other Doings with Technics - Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal and Bernhard Siegert, PART III Theories of Media, 7. Protective Media - Francesco Casetti, 8. Carried Away: The Carrier Bag Theory of Media - Yijun Sun and Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, 9. Beyond Access: Transforming Ableist Techno-Worlds - Neta Alexander and Jonathan Sterne, PART IV Archaeologies of Media, 10. Coming to Terms with the Smart Phone - Wanda Strauven, 11. The Afterlife of an Optical Device, or Making the Lantern Kosher - Doron Galili, PART V Filmic Techniques, 12. Theories of the Frame and Framing in Cinema: A Genealogy - Ariel Rogers, 13. Split Screens: A Discussion with Catherine Grant, Malte Hagener, and Katharina Loew - Nicholas Baer and Annie van den Oever, 14. Specks of Time: Digital Editing and Verse Jumping in Everything Everywhere All at Once - Kartik Nair, PART VI Digital Humanities, 15. Streams, Portals, and Data Flows: Digital Infrastructures of Film Studies - Malte Hagener, 16. Six Memos for the New Millennium: A Dialogue with Andreas Fickers on Epistemic Virtues in the Digital Humanities - Annie van den Oever.

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Nicholas Baer is Assistant Professor of German at the University of California, Berkeley, with affiliations in Film & Media, Critical Theory, and Jewish Studies. He is author of Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism and coeditor of The Promise of Cinema: German Film Theory, 1907–1933 and Unwatchable. Annie van den Oever is a Professor of Film at the University of Groningen and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg (since March 2024). Recent books: Doing Experimental Media Archaeology. Theory(De Gruyter, 2022, with Andreas Fickers); and Visual Media, Distortions, and the Grotesque as a Dominant Format Today (AUP 2024, forthcoming).

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