Launching Bloomsbury's Thinking Media series,Media Matterintroduces readers to the nascent field of media-philosophy. Contributors urge readers to re-adjust their ideas of Media Studies, by extending the understanding of medium to include a concept of materiality that also includes non-human transmitters (elements such as water, earth, fire, air) and also 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 the contributors redefine the concept of medium in order to think through media, rather than about them.
Bernd Herzogenrathis Professor of American Studies at the University of Frankfurt, Germany.
Media Matter: An Introduction
Bernd Herzogenrath (Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany)
Theory-Matter
Chapter 1: The Meta-Physics of Media
Walter Seitter (University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria)
Chapter 2: Media Matter: Materiality and Performativity in Media Theory
Katerina Krtilova (Bauhaus-Universit?t Weimar, Germany)
Text-Matter
Chapter 3: Between Print Matter and Page Matter: The Codex Platform as Media Suppoort
Garrett Stewart (University of Iowa, USA)
Chapter 4: 'Local Color': Light in Faulkner
Hanjo Berressem (University of Cologne, Germany)
Film-Matter
Chapter 5: Figure-Ground: Stills from the Films of Bill Morrison
Bill Morrison (Hypnotic Pictures)
Chapter 6: Matter that Images: Bill Morrison'sDecasia
Bernd Herzogenrath (Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany)
Chapter 7: Moving Images as Ontographic Images
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