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

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Siegert, Bernhard (Author)
Other Authors: Winthrop-Young, Geoffrey, 1960- (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Alemán
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Meaning systems.
Subjects:
Mass media and culture.
Médias et culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
SCIENCE > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
Mass media and culture
Cultural Techniques.
Posthumanities.
anthropological difference.
communion.
doors.
eating rituals.
evil eye.
gaze.
graphic operations.
grid.
materialities of communication.
media.
practices.
ship design.
subject constitution.
trompe-l'oeil.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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