Main entry:

Siegert, Bernhard, author.

Title & Author:

Cultural techniques : grids, filters, doors, and other articulations of the real / Bernhard Siegert ; translated by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.
©2015

Description:

xiv, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Meaning systems

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-260) and index.
Introduction: Cultural techniques, or, The end of the intellectual postwar in German media theory -- 1. Cacography or Communication? Cultural techniques of sign-signal-distinction -- 2. Eating Animals-Eating God-Eating Man: Variations on the Last Supper, or, The cultural techniques of communion -- 3. Parlêtres: The cultural techniques of anthropological difference -- 4. Medusas of the western Pacific: The cultural techniques of seafaring -- 5. Pasajeros a Indias: Registers and biographical writing as cultural techniques of subject constitution (Spain, 16th century) -- 6. (Not) in Place: The grid, or, cultural techniques of ruling spaces -- 7. White spots and hearts of darkness: Drafting, projecting and designing as cultural techniques -- 8. Waterlines: Striated and smooth spaces as techniques of ship design -- 9. Figures of self-reference: A media genealogy of the trompe-l'Doeil in 17th-century Dutch still life -- 10. Door Logic, or, The materiality of the symbolic: From cultural techniques to cybernetic machines.

Summary:

"This volume designates a shift within posthumanistic media studies, that dissolves the concept of media into a network of operations, that reproduce, process and reflect the distinctions that are fundamental for a given culture, e.g. the anthropological difference, the distinctions between natural object and cultural sign, noise and information, eye and gaze"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780823263752 (hardback)
0823263754 (hardback)
9780823263769 (paper)
0823263762 (paper)

Subject:

Mass media and culture.
Médias et culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE Media Studies.
SCIENCE General.
LITERARY CRITICISM Semiotics & Theory.
Medienwirkungsforschung
Medienforschung
Sozialwissenschaften

Added entries:

Winthrop-Young, Geoffrey, 1960- translator.
Meaning systems.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 296923
Call No.: BIB 243244
Status: Available