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Variations on media thinking
In: Posthumanities 52
Audiovisions: Cinema and Television as Entr'actes in History
In: Film Culture in Transition
The production, distribution, and perception of moving images are undergoing a radical transformation. Ever-faster computers, digital technology, and microelectronic are joining forces to produce advanced audiovision -the media vanishing point of the 20th century. Very little will remain unchanged. The classic institutions for the mediation of film - cinema and television - are revealed to be no more than interludes in the broader history of the audiovisual media. This book interprets these changes not simply as a cultural loss but also as a challenge: the new audiovisions have to be confronted squarely to make strategic intervention possible. Audiovisions provides a historical underpinning for this active approach. Spanning 100 years, from the end of the 19th to the end of the 20th century, it reconstructs the complex genesis of cinema and television as historically relative - and thus finite - cultural forms, focussing on the dynamics and tension in the interaction between the apparatus and its uses. The book is also a plea for 'staying power' in studies of cultural technology and technological culture of film. Essayistic in style, it dispenses with complicated cross references and, instead, is structured around distinct historical phases. Montages of images and text provide supplemental information, contrast, and comment. - De productie, de distributie, en de waarneming van bewegende beelden zijn onderhevig aan een radicale transformatie. Doordat steeds snellere computers en digitale technologie kracht bundelen, ontstaat er een nieuwe vorm van 'audiovisie'. Bijna niets zal hetzelfde blijven. De ooit 'normale' media voor het uitdragen van film - de bioscoop en de televisie - blijken niet meer te zijn dan een intermezzo in de geschiedenis van de audiovisuele media. Dit boek interpreteert de veranderingen niet als cultureel verlies maar als een uitdaging: de nieuwe 'audiovisie' moet anders benaderd worden om strategische interventie mogelijk te maken. 'Audiovisions' ondersteunt deze benadering op historische wijze. Door te kijken naar 100 jaar, van het eind van de negentiende tot aan het eind van de 20ste eeuw, laat het zien waarom de bioscoop en televisie als eindige, culturele vormen gezien moeten worden. Tevens is het boek een pleidooi voor ' blijvend kracht' van studies naar culturele technologie en de technologische cultuur van film. Essayistisch in stijl, is het boek gestructureerd rond verschillende historische fasen. De beelden en bij de tekst zorgen voor supplementaire informatie, contrast, en aanvullend commentaar.
Audiovisions: cinema and television as entr'actes in history
In: Film Culture in Transition
The production, distribution, and perception of moving images are undergoing a radical transformation. Ever-faster computers, digital technology, and microelectronic are joining forces to produce advanced audiovision - the media vanishing point of the 20th century. Very little will remain unchanged. The classic institutions for the mediation of film - cinema and television - are revealed to be no more than interludes in the broader history of the audiovisual media. This book interprets these changes not simply as a cultural loss but also as a challenge: the new audiovisions have to be confronted squarely to make strategic intervention possible. Audiovisions provides a historical underpinning for this active approach. Spanning 100 years, from the end of the 19th to the end of the 20th century, it reconstructs the complex genesis of cinema and television as historically relative - and thus finite - cultural forms, focussing on the dynamics and tension in the interaction between the apparatus and its uses. The book is also a plea for 'staying power' in studies of cultural technology and technological culture of film. Essayistic in style, it dispenses with complicated cross references and, instead, is structured around distinct historical phases. Montages of images and text provide supplemental information, contrast, and comment.
Means And Seas
In: Nka: journal of contemporary African art, Band 2020, Heft 46, S. 40-54
ISSN: 2152-7792
In this article, the author examines the contrasting worldviews of specific philosophers, architects, and physicists in an attempt to identify a position that would represent a viable alternative to the concept of universalization. In the history of civilization, he asserts, almost all wars have been of a territorial nature. Territories tend toward uniformity and universalization. He contrasts this worldview with reflections on oceanic thinking, which perceives bodies of water such as the Mediterranean as mediators between continents as well as between opposing worldviews, connecting and dividing at the same time. The sea, however, does not connect in order to homogenize but rather creates distance as an important prerequisite for true communication, thus linking multiplicity in all its variety as a viable alternative to universalism. The author moves on to scrutinize the cosmopolitan attitude as a paradox that on the one hand is oriented to the particular individual and on the other hand to an imaginary world community, that is, the universal. Taking this notion further to consider today's world that is saturated with the imaginary and symbolic power of the Internet, the author proposes that cosmopolitanism could be understood as an adequate expression for the technologically advanced world community by its capability to strike a balance between the individual and the world as a whole, on one side, and synthetic identity generated by culture and technology, on the other. Nevertheless, deviating from all of these worldviews, the author concludes with a short reflection, inspired by two films, on an alternative to cosmopolitanism that he calls cosmoethics, which employs ethics as the guiding principle of thought and action and commits to a practice that stays in close contact not only with real but also with diverse realities.
Als-Ob
In: Ästhetik & Kommunikation, Band 44, Heft 162/163, S. 224-231
ISSN: 0341-7212
"Der Sender sei die Kanzel des Volkes": von der Arbeiter-Radio-Bewegung zur "Fernsehgemeinde"
In: Die Arbeiter: Lebensformen, Alltag und Kultur von der Frühindustrialisierung bis zum "Wirtschaftswunder", S. 378-389
Im Mittelpunkt der vorliegenden Darstellung steht die Entwicklung der Arbeiterschaft vom Träger der klassenbewußten Arbeiter-Radio-Bewegung, die in der Weimarer Republik als wichtiges Aufgabenfeld der proletarischen Alltagskultur begriffen wurde, zum Bestandteil der kollektiven "Fernsehgemeinde" heute. Als wichtige Etappen auf diesem Weg werden einerseits die völlige Zerschlagung dieser proletarischen Bewegung und die teilweise Übernahme von deren Funktionen (Bau preiswerter Empfänger) durch den Nationalsozialismus beschrieben, während andererseits die Strategie der nationalsozialistischen Medienpolitik, nämlich die Integration der großen Masse der deutschen Bevölkerung zur "Volksgemeinschaft" mittels Rundfunks und Fernsehens, als wichtige Voraussetzungen betrachtet werden. Für die Bundesrepublik wird die weitere Entwicklung dann als rasche Nivellierung der Arbeiterkultur im und durch das Fernsehen beschrieben, welches die Arbeiter in das durch Konsum egalisierte Heer von "Rezipienten" eingliederte. Der Verfasser gelangt zu dem Befund, daß die kollektive Auseinandersetzung mit dem Medium der desorganisierenden, individualisierten Restzeitbeschäftigung mit den Rundfunkmedien und ihrer neuen technischen Varianten gewichen ist. (SK)
[... after the media]: news from the slow-fading twentieth century
In: Univocal
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction [The Argument] The Media Have Become Superfluous; 1. Critique of the Strategic Generalization the Media, Their Provenance and Aims: An Unabashed tour d'horizon; 2. In Praise of What Is Not Systemic about the Arts: For a cultura experimentalis; 3. Thinking Media Explicitly and Implicitly -- and the Imitation of a Perspective: For an Exact Philology of Precise Things.; 4. Be Offline and Exist Online; Vademecum for the Prevention of psychopathia medialis [Manifesto]; Select Bibliography of Literature Used and Literature Cited
Fiktion als Fakt: "Metaphysik" der neuen Medien
In: Jahrbuch für internationale Germanistik
In: Reihe C, Forschungsberichte 4,5
In: Medienwissenschaft 5
Europäische Audiovisionen: Film und Fernsehen im Umbruch
In: Neue Aspekte in Kultur- und Kommunikationswissenschaft 7
Televisionen, Medienzeiten: Beiträge zur Diskussion um die Zukunft der Kommunikation
In: Projekt Technik und Massenmedien