[...After the media]

Univocal Publishing

2013

275 p.

978-1937561161

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.

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.

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