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: | 978-90-485-6456-9 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2024 |
| Publisher: | Amsterdam University Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | Free of charge contact
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Book Description:
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Technics gathers leading international media scholars to rethink technology for the contemporary digital era. The volume's 28 contributors provide cutting-edge theoretical, historiographical, and methodological reflections on media and technology. Chapters explore the ideas of Walter Benjamin, Ursula Le Guin, Bernhard Siegert, Gilbert Simondon, and Sylvia Wynter in conjunction with urgent issues such as ableism, algorithms, digital infrastructures, generative AI, and geoengineering. An...
More DescriptionTechnics gathers leading international media scholars to rethink technology for the contemporary digital era. The volume's 28 contributors provide cutting-edge theoretical, historiographical, and methodological reflections on media and technology. Chapters explore the ideas of Walter Benjamin, Ursula Le Guin, Bernhard Siegert, Gilbert Simondon, and Sylvia Wynter in conjunction with urgent issues such as ableism, algorithms, 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.