Technics Media in the Digital Age |
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| Editor:
| Baer, Nicholas
van den Oever, Annie |
| Series title: | The Key Debates: Mutations and Appropriations in European Film Studies |
| ISBN: | 978-90-485-6455-2 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2024 |
| Publisher: | Amsterdam University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $150.00 |
Book Description:
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Featuring 28 leading international media scholars, Technics rethinks technology for the contemporary digital era, with cutting-edge theoretical, historiographical, and methodological interventions. The volume's contributors explore the ideas of Walter Benjamin, Ursula Le Guin, Bernhard Siegert, Gilbert Simondon, and Sylvia Wynter in conjunction with urgent questions concerning algorithmic media, digital infrastructures, generative AI, and geoengineering. An expansive collection of...
More DescriptionFeaturing 28 leading international media scholars, Technics rethinks technology for the contemporary digital era, with cutting-edge theoretical, historiographical, and methodological interventions. The volume's contributors explore the ideas of Walter Benjamin, Ursula Le Guin, Bernhard Siegert, Gilbert Simondon, and Sylvia Wynter in conjunction with urgent questions concerning algorithmic media, digital infrastructures, generative AI, and geoengineering. An expansive collection of writings on media technologies in the digital age, Technics is an essential resource for students and scholars of film and media studies, digital humanities, science and technology studies, and the philosophy of technology.