Wolfgang Ernst
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Filmmaker, film essayist, installation artist, writer: the Berlin artist Harun Farocki has devoted his life to the power of images. Over the thirty-plus years of his career, Farocki has explored not the images of life but rather the life of images that surrounds us in newspapers, cinema, books, television, and advertising. Harun Farocki examines, from different critical perspectives, his vast oeuvre, which includes three feature films, critical media...
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Beckett and media provides the first sustained examination of the relationship between Beckett and media technologies. The book analyses the rich variety of technical objects, semiotic arrangements, communication processes and forms of data processing that Beckett's work so uniquely engages with, as well as those that - in historically changing configurations - determine the continuing performance, the audience reception, and the scholarly study of...
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
How do new media affect the question of social memory? Social memory is usually described as enacted through ritual, language, art, architecture, and institutions ? phenomena whose persistence over time and capacity for a shared storage of the past was set in contrast to fleeting individual memory. But the question of how social memory should be understood in an age of digital computing, instant updating, and interconnection in real time, is very...
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Digital media everyday inscribe new patterns of time, promising instant communication, synchronous collaboration, intricate time management, and profound new advantages in speed. The essays in this volume reconsider these outward interfaces of convenience by calling attention to their supporting infrastructures, the networks of digital time that exert pressures of conformity and standardization on the temporalities of lived experience and have important...
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
1. Aufl.
Description
Die Opposition der 'neuen digitalen' zu den 'alten analogen' Medien findet sich in Werbung, Popkultur, Wirtschaft, Politik und Wissenschaft. Offenbar hat sich die Unterscheidung analog/digital zur paradigmatischen Leitdifferenz des späten 20. und frühen 21. Jahrhunderts entwickelt. Doch was bedeutet 'analog' bzw. 'digital' in verschiedenen Kontexten genau und gibt es nicht auch Übergänge zwischen beiden Formen? Wann taucht die Unterscheidung auf...
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
1. Aufl.
Description
Die Kontroversen um das 'islamische Kopftuch' haben gezeigt, dass dabei um mehr als nur ein Stück Stoff gestritten wird. Vielmehr dient der Kopftuchstreit als Projektionsfläche, auf der die verschiedenen Konfliktlinien der Einwanderungsdebatten in Europa sichtbar werden.Dieses Standardwerk lässt namhafte Autorinnen und Autoren zu Wort kommen, die aus rechts-, sozial- und kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive erklären, welche Werte und Prinzipien...