| Media Matter: The Materiality of Media, Matter as Medium Contributor(s): Herzogenrath, Bernd (Editor), Pisters, Patricia (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1628923830 ISBN-13: 9781628923834 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $188.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies - Philosophy - Science |
| Dewey: 302.230 |
| LCCN: 2015004741 |
| Series: Thinking Media |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.7" W x 8.6" (1.25 lbs) 328 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What is a medium? If Nietzsche was right in claiming that "our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts," that media help us think, and if different media allow for different ways of thinking, then the body of the respective medium in question, its materiality, shapes and influences the range and direction of how media make us think. Shouldn't we consequently speak of informed matter and of materialized information? Launching Bloomsbury's Thinking Media series, Media Matter introduces readers to the nascent field of media-philosophy. Contributors urge readers to re-adjust their ideas of Media Studies, by both extending the understanding of medium in such a way as to include a concept of materiality that also includes non-human transmitters (elements such as water, earth, fire, air) and by understanding media not only in the context of cultural or discursive systems or apparatuses, relays, transistors, hardware or discourse networks, but more inclusively, in terms of a media ecology. Beginning with more general essays on media and then focusing on particular themes (neuroplasticity, photography, sculpture and music), especially in relation to film, Herzogenrath and contributors redefine the concept of medium in order to think through media, rather than about them. |
Contributor Bio(s): Herzogenrath, Bernd: - Bernd Herzogenrath is Professor of American Studies at the University of Frankfurt, Germany. Pisters, Patricia: - Patricia Pisters is Professor of Film Studies at the Department of Media Studies of the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and director of the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (ASCA). She is one of the founding editors of Necsus: European Journal of Media Studies, program director of the research group Neuroaesthetics and Neurocultures, and co-director of the research group Film and Philosophy. Publications include The Matrix of Visual Culture (2003); Revisiting Normativity with Deleuze (with Rosi Braidotti; 2012) and The Neuro-Image (2012). See for articles, her blog, and other information at www.patriciapisters.com. |