...After the Media: News from the Slow-Fading Twentieth Century (Univocal) - Softcover

Zielinski, Siegfried

Softcover

ISBN 10: 193756116X ISBN 13: 9781937561161

Publisher: Univocal Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

The media are now redundant. In an overview of developments spanning the past seventy years, Siegfried Zielinski’s [ . . . After the Media] discusses how the means of technology-based communication assumed a systemic character and how theory, art, and criticism were operative in this process. Media-explicit thinking is contrasted with media-implicit thought. Points of contact with an arts perspective include a reinterpretation of the artist Nam June Paik and an introduction to the work of Jake and Dinos Chapman. The essay ends with two appeals. In an outline of a precise philology of exact things, Zielinski suggests possibilities of how things could proceed after the media. With a vade mecum against psychopathia medialis in the form of a manifesto, the book advocates for a distinction to be made between online existence and offline being.

About this title

From the Author:

Siegfried Zielinski is professor of media theory at the University of Arts (UdK) Berlin as well as Michel Foucault Professor of Media Archaeology and Techno-Culture at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. He is also director of the Vilém Flusser Archive at the Universität der Künste in Berlin.

About this edition

• Publisher: Univocal Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 193756116X
• ISBN 13: 9781937561161
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 275