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Media After Kittler

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Full Title:

Media After Kittler

Contributors:

By (Author) Eleni Ikoniadou
Edited by Scott Wilson

ISBN:

9781783481217

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint:

Rowman & Littlefield International

Publication Date:

29th April 2015

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

Professional and Scholarly

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Media studies
Western philosophy from c 1800

Dewey:

302.2301

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

204

Dimensions:

Width 149mm, Height 219mm, Spine 21mm

Weight:

413g

Description

Is it possible to incite a turn towards Media Philosophy, a field that accounts for the autonomy of media, for machine agency and for the new modalities of thought and subjectivity that these enable, rather than dwelling on representations, audiences and extensions of the self In the wake of the field-defining work done by Friedrich Kittler, this important collection of essays takes a philosophical approach to the end of the media era in the traditional sense and outlines the implications of a turn that sees media become concepts of the middle, of connection, and of multitudeacross diverse disciplines and theoretical perspectives. An expert panel of contributors, working at the cutting edge of media theory, analyze the German thinker's legacy and the possibilities his thought can unfold for media theory. This book examines the present and future condition of mediation, within the wider context of media studies in a digital age.

Reviews

Media After Kittler is a volume Kittler himself could have compiled: an intriguing mix of in-depth discussions and departures that probe the ways in which media can be conceived after, according to and sometimes against Kittler. It uses Kittler the way Kittler used the work of Lacan, Foucault and many others: as a toolbox for ingenious tinkering and innovative coupling. -- Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies, University of British Columbia

Author Bio

Eleni Ikoniadou is senior lecturer of media and communication at Kingston University and executive member of the London Graduate School. Her writing has appeared in journals such as Body & Society, Senses and Society, Culture Machine, and Leonardo and she is the author of The Rhythmic Event (Technologies of Lived Abstraction series, 2014). Scott Wilson is professor of media and psychoanalysis at Kingston University. His most recent books include The Order of Joy; Beyond the Cultural Politics of Enjoyment (2008) and Stop Making Sense: Music from the Perspective of the Real (2015).

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