Critical Terms for Media Studies: Critical Terms
Editat de Professor W. J. T. Mitchell, Mark B. N. Hansenen Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 mar 2010
Communications, philosophy, film and video, digital culture: media studies straddles an astounding array of fields and disciplines and produces a vocabulary that is in equal parts rigorous and intuitive. Critical Terms for Media Studies defines, and at times, redefines, what this new and hybrid area aims to do, illuminating the key concepts behind its liveliest debates and most dynamic topics.
Part of a larger conversation that engages culture, technology, and politics, this exciting collection of essays explores our most critical language for dealing with the qualities and modes of contemporary media. Edited by two outstanding scholars in the field, W. J. T. Mitchell and Mark B. N. Hansen, the volume features works by a team of distinguished contributors. These essays, commissioned expressly for this volume, are organized into three interrelated groups: “Aesthetics” engages with terms that describe sensory experiences and judgments, “Technology” offers entry into a broad array of technological concepts, and “Society” opens up language describing the systems that allow a medium to function.
A compelling reference work for the twenty-first century and the media that form our experience within it, Critical Terms for Media Studies will engage and deepen any reader’s knowledge of one of our most important new fields.
Part of a larger conversation that engages culture, technology, and politics, this exciting collection of essays explores our most critical language for dealing with the qualities and modes of contemporary media. Edited by two outstanding scholars in the field, W. J. T. Mitchell and Mark B. N. Hansen, the volume features works by a team of distinguished contributors. These essays, commissioned expressly for this volume, are organized into three interrelated groups: “Aesthetics” engages with terms that describe sensory experiences and judgments, “Technology” offers entry into a broad array of technological concepts, and “Society” opens up language describing the systems that allow a medium to function.
A compelling reference work for the twenty-first century and the media that form our experience within it, Critical Terms for Media Studies will engage and deepen any reader’s knowledge of one of our most important new fields.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780226532554
ISBN-10: 0226532550
Pagini: 376
Ilustrații: 4 halftones, 6 line drawings
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Seria Critical Terms
ISBN-10: 0226532550
Pagini: 376
Ilustrații: 4 halftones, 6 line drawings
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Seria Critical Terms
Notă biografică
W. J. T. Mitchell is the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature and in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago. He is the author or editor of nine books published by the University of Chicago Press, including What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images. Mark B. N. Hansen is professor of literature and arts of the moving image at Duke University. He is the author of New Philosophy for New Media, among other titles.
Cuprins
Introduction W. J. T. Mitchell and Mark B. N. Hansen
Aesthetics
1. Art Johanna Drucker
2. Body Bernadette Wegenstein
3. Image W. J. T. Mitchell
4. Materiality Bill Brown
5. Memory Bernard Stiegler, with an introduction by Mark B. N. Hansen
6. Senses Caroline Jones
7. Time and Space W. J. T. Mitchell and Mark B. N. Hansen
Technology
8. Biomedia Eugene Thacker
9. Communication Bruce Clarke
10. Cybernetics N. Katherine Hayles
11. Information Bruce Clarke
12. New Media Mark B. N. Hansen
13. Hardware/Software/Wetware Geoffrey Winthrop-Young
14. Technology John Johnston
Society
15. Exchange David Graeber
16. Language Cary Wolfe
17. Law Peter Goodrich
18. Mass Media John Durham Peters
19. Networks Alexander R. Galloway
20. Systems David Wellbery
21. Writing Lydia H. Liu
Contributors
Index
Aesthetics
1. Art Johanna Drucker
2. Body Bernadette Wegenstein
3. Image W. J. T. Mitchell
4. Materiality Bill Brown
5. Memory Bernard Stiegler, with an introduction by Mark B. N. Hansen
6. Senses Caroline Jones
7. Time and Space W. J. T. Mitchell and Mark B. N. Hansen
Technology
8. Biomedia Eugene Thacker
9. Communication Bruce Clarke
10. Cybernetics N. Katherine Hayles
11. Information Bruce Clarke
12. New Media Mark B. N. Hansen
13. Hardware/Software/Wetware Geoffrey Winthrop-Young
14. Technology John Johnston
Society
15. Exchange David Graeber
16. Language Cary Wolfe
17. Law Peter Goodrich
18. Mass Media John Durham Peters
19. Networks Alexander R. Galloway
20. Systems David Wellbery
21. Writing Lydia H. Liu
Contributors
Index
Recenzii
“Critical Terms for Media Studies offers not simply a collection of critical terms, but a paradigm-shifting rethinking of the field itself. It represents an extremely important approach to media in the twenty-first century, one that will become increasingly relevant as the ubiquity of new media and new technologies make the questions it raises more and more pressing. The book is a definitive and defining statement about the future shape and direction of media studies.”
“This volume of articles was far more than merely a reflection on a field of study. It was rather a strong statement about what that field could and should be, and a guide to how it might develop and what forms it might take.”