Technológos in Being: Radical Media Archaeology & the Computational Machine (Thinking Media)
Technológos in Being: Radical Media Archaeology & the Computational Machine (Thinking Media)by Wolfgang Ernst
English | ISBN: 1501362291 | 224 pages | EPUB | June 3, 2021 | 2.28 Mb
English | ISBN: 1501362291 | 224 pages | EPUB | June 3, 2021 | 2.28 Mb
Wolfgang Ernst's new work, Technológos in Being, in its explicit media-scientific approach, aligns with the politics of the thinking media series to publish innovative works that advance media studies towards the 'new sciences.'
Ernst's invites readers to re-adjust their ideas of Media Studies: the conviction that an extended understanding of "medium" needs to include a concept of materiality that focuses on "non- human" agencies as well. The book grounds media analysis radically in the technological apparatuses, relays, transistors, hard- and software, to precisely locate the scenes, operations and frictions where reasoning logos and 'informable' matter interfere