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[Commlist] new book: Variations on Media Thinking
Thu Dec 12 13:52:13 GMT 2019
We would like to announce a new publication from the University of
Minnesota Press, which we hope will be of interest.
*Variations on Media Thinking***
*Siegfried Zielinski***
*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/variations-on-media-thinking_*
Expanding on Siegfried Zielinski’s groundbreaking inquiry into “deep
time” of the media, the essays in /Variations on Media Thinking/ further
the eminent media theorist’s unique method of /expanded hermeneutics/,
which means for him interpreting technical artifacts as essential parts
of our cultural lives. Covering such topics as the televisualized
“Holocaust,” the ubiquity of media today, the Internet, the genealogy of
sound art, and history’s first hacker movement, these essays further
diversify Zielinski’s insight into the hidden layers of media
development, which he first articulated in his pioneering work /Deep
Time of the Media/.*__*
Including many previously untranslated and scarce essays, these “written
time machines” open new lines of investigation for cultural scholars.
From the automata of the Arabic-Islamic Renaissance (800–1200) to the
largest and loudest techno-event ever, known as The Symphony of
Sirens—which transformed Baku in 1922 into an immense music box of
modern noise—/Variations on Media Thinking/ covers Zielinski’s inquiries
since 1975. Richly illustrated and full of provocation, brilliant
insight, and fascinating research, this volume is perfect for students
of media archaeology, philosophy, and technology, as well as any
adventurous, rigorous thinkers engaged with culture and media.*__*
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*Siegfried Zielinski *is Michel Foucault Professor at The European
Graduate School in Saas Fee and chair for Archaeology and Variantology
of Art and Media at Berlin University of the Arts (i.r.). He is author
of /Deep Time of the Media: Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing
by Technical Means/ (2006), which has been translated into many
languages, and /[...After the Media/]: /News from the Slow-Fading
Twentieth Century/ (Univocal/Minnesota, 2013).*__*
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