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The Epic Imaginary
This study analyzes how the imagination of the epic genre as legitimately legitimating community also unleashes an ambivalence between telling coherent ‐ and hence legitimating ‐ stories of political community and narrating open-ended stories of contingency that might de-legitimate political power. Manifest in eighteenth-century poetics above all in the disjunction between programmatic definitions of the epic and actual experiments with the genre, this ambivalence can also arise within a single epic over the course of its narrative. The present study thus traces how particular eighteenth-century epics explore an originary incompleteness of political power and its narrative legitimations....
Truth in Serial Form
This volume has its starting point in the veritable explosion of serialized formats in all of forms representation, from painting to printing, beginning in the mid nineteenth century and the well-known fascination with series in biology, mathematics, music, art, or literature. The new media culture of the late nineteenth century, very much shaped by these serialized formats, sees itself confronted with questions of truthfulness in new and profound ways, just as perhaps the accelerated rhythm, anonymity, and broadened accessibility of new media today have created new possibilities for the dissemination of misinformation and, conversely, give us cause to interrogate anew our notions of truthfu...
Taking Stock
The volume examines the proliferation of inventorying models and practices as cultural techniques of knowledge organization and production during the long nineteenth century. While inventories are still broadly treated as raw data and unprocessed source materials, the book shows how they function as complex media formats, intersecting and interfering with other material techniques to produce, store, distribute, organize and process cultural information. How do inventories work against and in dialogue with other media of collection, storage and retrieval such as catalogs, indexes, bibliographies, and archives; what new media configurations do techniques of inventorying enable and how, in turn, are such techniques shaped by the media channels and formats they employ; what is at stake in the critical effort of "taking stock", whether as commercial, bureaucratic, literary, historiographical, or scientific operations; finally, what do such operations tell us specifically about the production and circulation of knowledge in the German nineteenth century?
The Connectivity of Things
A media history of the material and infrastructural features of networking practices, a German classic translated for the first time into English. Nets hold, connect, and catch. They ensnare, bind, and entangle. Our social networks owe their name to a conceivably strange and ambivalent object. But how did the net get into the network? And how can it reasonably represent the connectedness of people, things, institutions, signs, infrastructures, and even nature? The Connectivity of Things by Sebastian Giessmann, the first media history that addresses the overwhelming diversity of networks, attempts to answer all these questions and more. Reconstructing the decisive moments in which networking ...
Arthur in Northern Translations
Arthur in Northern Translations is a compilation of some of the articles presented at two conferences organized by the Nordic Branch of the Arthurian Society. The volume aims to showcase the richness and broad appeal of the contemporary research on Nordic translations of courtly literature, featuring articles on the Arthurian tradition in Medieval Scandinavia. As such, the articles compiled here will be of interest not only to specialists of the Medieval North, but to all interested in courtly literature and Arthurian material in general.
Format Matters
From TIFF files to TED talks, from book sizes to blues stations - the term "format" circulates in a staggering array of contexts and applies to entirely dissimilar objects and practices. How can such a pliable notion meaningfully function as an instrument of classification in so many industries and scientific communities? Comprising a wide range of case studies on the standards, practices, and politics of formats from scholars of photography, film, radio, television, and the Internet, Format Matters charts the many ways in which formats shape and are shaped by past and present media cultures. This volume represents the first sustained collaborative effort to advance the emerging field of format studies.
Linguistic Disobedience
This book asks how we—as citizens, immigrants, activists, teachers—can counter the abuse of language in our midst. How can we take back the power of language from those who flaunt that power to silence or erase us and our fellows? In search of answers, Linguistic Disobedience recalls ages and situations that made critiquing, correcting, and caring for language essential for survival. From turn-of-the-twentieth-century Central Europe to the miseries of the Third Reich, from the Movement for Black Lives to the ongoing effort to decolonize African languages, the study and practice of linguistic disobedience have been crucial. But what are we to do today, when reactionary supremacists and authoritarians are screen-testing their own forms of so-called disobedience to quash oppositional social justice movements and their languages? Blending lyric essay with cultural criticism, historical analysis, and applied linguistics, Linguistic Disobedience offers suggestions for a hopeful pathway forward in violent times.
Collecting in the Twenty-first Century
Introduction: Collecting in the digital age / Christoph Zeller -- Collecting : defining the subject / Johannes Endres -- Collector as curator : collecting in the post-Internet age / Boris Groys -- Should libraries still be charged with collecting in a digital environment? / Michael Knoche -- Museums and collecting as/and media in the digital age / Peter M. McIsaac -- Quality storage : collecting as a technique of reading / Nikolaus Wegmann -- Phenomenology of memory in an age of big data / Clifford B. Anderson -- Collecting the cultural memory of Palmyra / Erin L. Thompson -- Conservation in the digital age / Jessica Walthew -- Music and the limits of collectability / Rolf J. Goebel -- Cat art and climate change : collecting in the data Anthropocene / Edward Dawson -- Doomed to collect : dataveillance as inner logic of the Internet / Roberto Simanowski -- Data collection in the age of surveillance capitalism / Douglas C. Schmidt.
Acting and Performance in Moving Image Culture
This volume offers transdisciplinary perspectives on the study of acting and performance in moving image forms. It assembles 26 international scholars from dance, theatre, film, media and cultural studies, art history and philosophy to investigate the art of acting and the presence of the human body in analog and digital film, animation and video art. The volume includes classical case studies and essays devoted to acting history and acting and genres, but its particular emphasis is on introducing a wide range of groundbreaking theoretical approaches - from continental and analytic philosophy to new media theory and cognitivist research - all of which interrogate the fundamental conceptions of »act« and »actor« that underwrite both popular and academic notions of performance in moving image culture.
Kontingenz und Steuerung
Torsten Hahn/Erich Kleinschmidt/Nicolas Pethes: Einleitung - Natalie Binczek: Aufschub des Geschmacksurteils in Klopstocks "Von dem Range der schönen Künste und der schönen Wissenschaften" (1758) - Bernhard J. Dotzler: Der Zusammenhang der Dinge. Regulation und Dämonologie von Watt bis Maxwell - Friedrich Balke: Die "Zirkulation des Staates". Medien der politischen Steuerung um 1800 - Heiko Christians: Kriegsbilder. Hölderlins 'Hyperion' und das Gattungssystem um 1800 - Niels Werber: Vom Nein der Frau. Steuerung und Kontingenz in der Liebe der Literatur - Torsten Hahn: Lärm und Geschwindigkeit. Steuerung in Kleists Kommunikationskrieg - Erich Kleinschmidt: Fällige Zufälle. Spiele der (Un) Ordnung in der Literatur um 1800 - Nicolas Pethes: Das Labor im Wald. Steuerung durch Isolation im romantischen Erziehungsexperiment - Gregor Schwering: Rousseaus 'leibliches Kollektivum' - Kontingenz und Steuerung - Stefan Rieger: Kybernetische Anthropologie. Die Steuerungen des Menschen. - Joseph Vogl: Sympathie und Symbolik. Soziale Steuerung bei Lessing
