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Technologos in Being Wolfgang Ernst (Humboldt University, Germany)

Technologos in Being By Wolfgang Ernst (Humboldt University, Germany)

Technologos in Being by Wolfgang Ernst (Humboldt University, Germany)


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Technologos in Being: Radical Media Archaeology & the Computational Machine by Wolfgang Ernst (Humboldt University, Germany)

Wolfgang Ernst's new work, Technologos 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.

Technologos in Being Reviews

Wolfgang Ernst offers a contrarian vision for media studies that circumvents two of the major streams of the field over the past decades: the ecocritical expansion of the media concept and the politically engaged cultural studies approach that asks about what affordances media yield to people. Instead he focuses on the material logics and artifacts by which thought is rendered concrete and hardware is rendered intelligent. He brings a vast technical knowledge of different kinds of technical machines and their context in the history of technology and their basis in mathematics. His approach is bracingly hardcore as opposed to sentimental. Technologos in Being offers a distinct voice in a crowded landscape and will help all of us figure out how better to live with the so-called smart machines that are our devices-and ourselves. * John Durham Peters, Maria Rosa Menocal Professor of English and of Film and Media Studies, Yale University, USA *

About Wolfgang Ernst (Humboldt University, Germany)

Wolfgang Ernst is Full Professor for Media Theories at the Institute for Musicology and Media Science at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. He is the author of The Delayed Present (2017), Digital Memory and the Archive (2012), and Chronopoetics (2016).

Table of Contents

Introduction Part I: Media Archaeology as Method of a Media Science, and as Techno-Logical Practice 1. Towards a More Radical Understanding of Media as Technology and Logotechnics 2. (Re)Enacting Media Techno-Logically: 'Digitality', Literally 3. Human Performance vs. Technical Operation: Mechanically Informed Music from the Past 4. Discretely Confronting Artefactual Materialities and Metarealities: Radical Media Archaeology Part 2: Radical Media Archaeology in Close Alliance with Operative Log-Technics (Computing) 5. The (With)In-Human Symbolic Machine 6. A Process-oriented Approach to Computation 7. Chronologos: The Untimeliness of the Time-Discrete Computing 8. Computing For and As Architecture: Between Cultural Technique and Technology 9. A New Kind of 'Love for Logos': Humanities of the Digital 10. Against Digital Metaphysics: AI 2.0 and Deep Machine Learning 11. Preliminary Conclusions from the Question Concerning Tehcnologos Bibliography Index

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NLS9781501378546
9781501378546
1501378546
Technologos in Being: Radical Media Archaeology & the Computational Machine by Wolfgang Ernst (Humboldt University, Germany)
New
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
2022-12-29
224
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