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Cultural techniques : grids, filters, doors, and other articulations of the real /

"This volume designates a shift within posthumanistic media studies, that dissolves the concept of media into a network of operations, that reproduce, process and reflect the distinctions that are fundamental for a given culture, e.g. the anthropological difference, the distinctions between nat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Siegert, Bernhard (Autor)
Otros Autores: Winthrop-Young, Geoffrey, 1960- (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Meaning systems.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Cultural techniques, or, The end of the intellectual postwar in German media theory
  • 1. Cacography or Communication? Cultural techniques of sign-signal-distinction
  • 2. Eating animals-eating God-eating man : variations on the Last Supper, or, The cultural techniques of communion
  • 3. Parlêtres: The cultural techniques of anthropological difference
  • 4. Medusas of the western Pacific: The cultural techniques of seafaring
  • 5. Pasajeros a Indias: Registers and biographical writing as cultural techniques of subject constitution (Spain, 16th century)
  • 6. (Not) in Place: The grid, or, cultural techniques of ruling spaces
  • 7. White spots and hearts of darkness: Drafting, projecting and designing as cultural techniques
  • 8. Waterlines : striated and smooth spaces as techniques of ship design
  • 9. Figures of self-reference : a media genealogy of the trompe-l'Doeil in 17th-century Dutch still life
  • 10. Door Logic, or, The materiality of the symbolic : From cultural techniques to cybernetic machines.