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OverviewMedia – old or new, in the cloud or underground – constitutes the very condition in which our world takes shape. Media is reshaped continuously, marked for both the profound effects it produces and the acceleration it exhibits. It is the site in which we signal some of the most pressing issues we face in our ever-widening technologized world. Written by authors working at the forefront of media theory today, this book charts an original and compelling path across various media forms, bringing to light the wonderful yet persistently unsettling role that media plays, and will continue to play, in the making of our future. It not only establishes media as a serious and interdisciplinary concept, but also demonstrates how this concept can be developed beyond the current limited form and content dichotomy. This book was originally published as a special issue of Cultural Studies. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Briankle G. Chang , Florian SprengerPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9780367891862ISBN 10: 0367891867 Pages: 172 Publication Date: 17 December 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print ![]() This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. Of digits and things: opening remarks 2. The agents of time and the time of the agents: the action of timepieces in Christian Marclay’s The Clock 3. Affective mediality and its aesthetic transformation in Christian Marclay’s The Clock 4. ‘Can thought go on without a body?’ On the relationship between machines and organisms in media philosophy 5. The metaphysics of media: Descartes’ sticks, naked communication, and immediacy 6. Meta/dia two different approaches to the medial 7. Historical, technological and medial a priori: on the belatedness of media 8. Synthesis as mediation: inner touch and eccentric sensationReviewsAuthor InformationBriankle G. Chang teaches Cultural Studies and Media Theory and Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, USA. He is the author of Deconstructing Communication: Subject, Representation, and Economies of Exchange (1996) and co-editor of Philosophy of Communication (2012). Florian Sprenger is Professor for Media and Cultural Studies at Goethe University, Germany. He is author of Politics of Microdecisions: Edward Snowden, Net Neutrality and the Architecture of the Internet (2015). His research covers topics such as the history of artificial environments and the media of immediacy. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |