[Commlist] new book: Variations on Media Thinking

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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