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Variations on media thinking / Siegfried Zielinski

Author
Zielinski, Siegfried
Uniform Title
Works. Selections. English
Published
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]
Copyright Date
©2019
Physical Description
xxv, 426 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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Language Note
Translated to English from the German.
Contents
Introduction : generators of surprise. diverse media thinking -- History as entertainment and provocation : the TV series Holocaust in West Germany -- Media archaeology : searching for different orders of envisioning -- Seven items on the net -- Towards a dramaturgy of differences -- From territories to intervals : some preliminary thoughts on the economy of time/the time -- On the difficulty to think twofold in one with Nils Röller -- The art of design : (manifesto) on the state of affairs and their agility -- "Too many images! We have to react"! : theses toward an apparatical prosthesis for seeing in the context of Godard's Histoire(s) du cinema -- The audiovisual time machine : concluding theses on the cultural technique of the video recorder -- War and media : marginalia of a genealogy, in legends and images -- Theologi electrici : a few passages -- Historic modes of the audiovisual apparatus -- "To all!" : the struggle of the German workers radio movement 1918-1933 -- Urban music box, urban hearing : Avraamov's Symphony of sirens in Baku and Moscow 1922-1923 : a media-archaeological miniature -- How one sees -- Lüology, techno-souls, artificial paradises : fragments of an an-archaeology of sound arts -- Designing and revealing : some aspects of a genealogy of projection -- Allah's automata : where ancient oriental learning intersects with early modern Europe; a media-archaeological miniature by way of introduction.
Summary
"Posthumanities series editor Cary Wolfe has been working with the eminent media theorist, Siegfried Zielinski, originator of the concept of 'deep time' and intellectual heir to Vilem Flusser, on a retrospective collection of essays tracing the course of his work from his exposes of the Nazi media machine to the ubiquity of media today -- so interwoven onto our lives that it has become invisible. Zielinski is a major figure in media studies but his work has been only sporadically translated thus far -- his 'big' book from MIT, Deep Time of the Media, appeared a decade ago"--
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ISBN
9781517907075 hardcover alkaline paper
1517907071 hardcover alkaline paper
9781517907082 paperback alkaline paper
151790708X paperback alkaline paper
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Endowment Note
Paterno Libraries Endowment
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