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"The Mediality of Sugar probes the potential of reading sugar as a mediator across some of the disciplinary distinctions in early twenty-first century research in the arts, literature, architecture, and popular culture. Selected artistic practices and material cultures of sugar across Europe and the Americas from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century are investigated and connected to the transcontinental and transoceanic history of the sugar plants cane and beet, their botanical and cultural dissemination, and global sugar capital and trade under colonialism and in decoloniality. The collection contributes to the vision of a Transnational and Postdisciplinary Sugar Studies"--

"The Mediality of Sugar probes the potential of reading sugar as a mediator across some of the disciplinary distinctions in early twenty-first century research in the arts, literature, architecture, and popular culture. Selected artistic practices and material cultures of sugar across Europe and the Americas from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century are investigated and connected to the transcontinental and transoceanic history of the sugar plants cane and beet, their botanical and cultural dissemination, and global sugar capital and trade under colonialism and in decoloniality. The collection contributes to the vision of a Transnational and Postdisciplinary Sugar Studies"--

In an era of heightened securitization, print, televisual and networked media have become obsessed with the 'pre-mediation' of future events. In response to the shock of 9/11, socially networked US and global media worked to pre-mediate collective affects of anticipation and connectivity, while also perpetuating low levels of apprehension or fear

'In this book, Richard Grusin demonstrates why he is one of the leading media and cultural theorists of our time. Lucid and convincing throughout, Premediation interrogates our mediatized futures, today. It is essential reading.' - Andrew Hoskins, University of Nottingham, UK 'Premediation offers an important counterpoint to the hegemony of futurism, a critical analysis of how visions and narratives of the future require more than a second glance. Grusin remediates his well known work on media, technology and time through an affective political sphere; one that, he argues, is cultivating an uncanny feeling of inevitability.' - Greg Elmer, Ryerson University, Canada

In medieval culture, media forms were placesof mediated immediacy. They transported apresence of the divine, but also knowledge ofits unattainability. This volume investigates the multi-layered and fascinatingapproaches of medieval authors to the wordand writing, the body and materiality, andtheir experimentation with the possibilitiesof media before the concept was invented.The book presents, for the first time, acoherent, tightly argued history of medievalmediality, which also casts a new light onmodern thinking about the medial

Call for Papers for a Conference in Erlangen-Nürnberg on September 30–October 2, 2024. Deadline: December 10, 2023

This article examines the religious use of loudspeakers on churches and mosques in Jos, Nigeria. It examines the medial form of the loudspeaker, how this medium technologizes urban space, and how urban residents generate cultural techniques to live with the sounds it produces. More precisely, I focus on how loudspeakers seek to compel attention by disbursing religious messages and how, in a city riven by religious conflict, residents cultivate practices of inattention in order to ameliorate the possibility of religious violence.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Identity and Modern Visual Culture: Textual Perspectives -- Imaging Identity -- Image Theory: Genealogies and Influences -- The Identity of Images -- Technical/Digital Images and Screened Identities -- Overview of Chapters -- References -- Part I: Digital Images of Identity -- Chapter 2: From the "Belfie" to the Death-of-Me: The Affective Archive of the Self/ie -- Techniques of the Archive, or Barthes in Conversation with Deleuze -- Strike a (Sexy) Pose, or Barthes in Conversation with Lacan -- Selfies and the Death Drive, or Barthes in Conversation with Freud -- Last Rites -- References -- Chapter 3: Calculating Lives? Memory, Archive and Identity in a Digital Era -- Introduction -- (Digital) Memory -- (Digital) Archives -- (Digital) Subjects -- Calculating Lives? A Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Modelling Vision: A Semeiotic Approach to Algorithmic Images -- An Introduction to Semeiotic -- What Is a Sign? -- From Experience to Interpretation -- Images as Signs -- Computer-Generated Images ("Algorithmic Images") -- Discussion -- References -- Part II: Written Images of Identity -- Chapter 5: Ideal Identities and Impossible Translations: Drawing on Writing and Writing on Drawing -- References -- Chapter 6: On Identification and Narrative Identity: Self-Formation in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine -- References -- Chapter 7: Art, Arcadia and Images of Identity in John Banville's Frames Trilogy -- "I have embarked upon the golden world"3 -- Art, Arcadia and Athena -- References -- Part III: Contested Images of Identity -- Chapter 8: W. B. Yeats's The Dreaming of the Bones: Self-Consuming Images of Identity -- Staging Remembrance -- A Theatre Without Audiences -- References.

"This interdisciplinary volume explores the ways in which time is staged at the threshold between the Middle Ages and the early modern period. Proceeding from the reality that all cultural forms are inherently and inescapably temporal, it seeks to discover the significance of time in mediations and communications of all kinds. By showing how time is displayed in diverse cultural strategies and situations, the essays of this volume show how time is intrinsic to the very concept of tradition. In exploring a variety of medial forms and communicative practices, they also reveal that while the beginning of the age of printing (around 1500) may mark a fundamental change in terms of reproduction and circulation, artefacts and other historical traditions continue to employ earlier systems and practices relating time and space. The volume features articles by leading researchers in their respective fields, including studies on mosaics as a medium reflecting space and time; the triptych's potential as a time machine; winged altarpieces mediating eternity; texts and images of the passion of Christ permeating past, present, and future; dimensions of time embedded in maps; a compendium of world knowledge organized by forms of time and temporality; the figuration of prophecy in times of crisis; the portrayal of time in architecture."--Back cover.