Cultural Techniques

preview-18
  • Cultural Techniques Book Detail

  • Author : Bernhard Siegert
  • Release Date : 2015-05-01
  • Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
  • Genre : Social Science
  • Pages : 286
  • ISBN 13 : 0823263770
  • File Size : 30,30 MB

Cultural Techniques by Bernhard Siegert PDF Summary

Book Description: In a crucial shift within posthumanistic media studies, Bernhard Siegert dissolves the concept of media into a network of operations that reproduce, displace, process, and reflect the distinctions fundamental for a given culture. Cultural Techniques aims to forget our traditional understanding of media so as to redefine the concept through something more fundamental than the empiricist study of a medium’s individual or collective uses or of its cultural semantics or aesthetics. Rather, Siegert seeks to relocate media and culture on a level where the distinctions between object and performance, matter and form, human and nonhuman, sign and channel, the symbolic and the real are still in the process of becoming. The result is to turn ontology into a domain of all that is meant in German by the word Kultur. Cultural techniques comprise not only self-referential symbolic practices like reading, writing, counting, or image-making. The analysis of artifacts as cultural techniques emphasizes their ontological status as “in-betweens,” shifting from firstorder to second-order techniques, from the technical to the artistic, from object to sign, from the natural to the cultural, from the operational to the representational. Cultural Techniques ranges from seafaring, drafting, and eating to the production of the sign-signaldistinction in old and new media, to the reproduction of anthropological difference, to the study of trompe-l’oeils, grids, registers, and doors. Throughout, Siegert addresses fundamental questions of how ontological distinctions can be replaced by chains of operations that process those alleged ontological distinctions within the ontic. Grounding posthumanist theory both historically and technically, this book opens up a crucial dialogue between new German media theory and American postcybernetic discourses.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Cultural Techniques books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Cultural Techniques

Cultural Techniques

File Size : 4,4 MB
Total View : 5658 Views
DOWNLOAD

In a crucial shift within posthumanistic media studies, Bernhard Siegert dissolves the concept of media into a network of operations that reproduce, displace, p

Relays

Relays

File Size : 6,6 MB
Total View : 6593 Views
DOWNLOAD

This book examines how one aspect of the social and technological situation of literature--namely, the postal system--determined how literature was produced and

The Technological Introject

The Technological Introject

File Size : 82,82 MB
Total View : 4892 Views
DOWNLOAD

The Technological Introject explores the futures opened up across the humanities and social sciences by the influential media theorist Friedrich Kittler. Joinin

Dust & Data

Dust & Data

File Size : 88,88 MB
Total View : 2712 Views
DOWNLOAD

One hundred years after the Bauhaus School's founding in 1919, this volume tells its story by interweaving the multiple historiographies of the Bauhaus with the

Media Theory and Cultural Technologies

Media Theory and Cultural Technologies

File Size : 48,48 MB
Total View : 3850 Views
DOWNLOAD

In recent decades, media theory has become one of the most influential trends in contemporary thinking, namely within cultural studies, the arts and humanities.