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“Local Color”: Light in Faulkner

Hanjo Berressem

Hanjo Berressem

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media|matter : the materiality of media|matter as medium

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...Unidentified participant: Sir, I’ve been told that the title of Light in August came from a colloquialism for the completion of a pregnancy. Is that true?William Faulkner: No, I used it because in my country in August there’s a—a—a peculiar...

Moving Images as Ontographic Images (According to Pier Paolo Pasolini)

Lorenz Engell

Lorenz Engell

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media|matter : the materiality of media|matter as medium

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

Book chapter

...There can be only little doubt—and were it different, we would probably not contribute to a volume focusing on media and matter—that in the humanities, in cultural studies, and especially in media studies, for a couple of years now, a new...

[Meta]Physics of Media

Walter Seitter

Walter Seitter

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media|matter : the materiality of media|matter as medium

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

Book chapter

...“Physics of Media” should be read as classification and analysis of media as material entities (Seitter 2002). But does this use of the word “physics” actually correspond to the common usage? Usually, “physics” is about natural...

Borderline: Nauman’s Balls and Acconci’s Shoot

Eva Ehninger

Eva Ehninger

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media|matter : the materiality of media|matter as medium

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...In Understanding Media. The Extensions of Man Marshall McLuhan utilized the myth of love-struck Narcissus yearning for his own image mirrored on the water surface in order to describe the double effect of media—in this case a mirrored...

The Romantic Readymade: Toward a Material Vitalism of Contemporary Art

Stephen Zepke

Stephen Zepke

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media|matter : the materiality of media|matter as medium

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...The relationship between matter and thought, nature and reason, or body and mind is a perennial philosophical conundrum that continues to animate contemporary debates, not least those around art. The shared conundrum is whether and how...

Between Print Matter and Page Matter: The Codex Platform as Medial Support

Garrett Stewart

Garrett Stewart

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Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...What matters in reading the so-called substance of a page, at least in bound form, depends on a substrate of materiality often unrelated (though necessary) to it. An entire genre of conceptual art takes this as its premise and its...

Matter that Images: Bill Morrison’s Decasia

Bernd Herzogenrath

Bernd Herzogenrath is Professor of American Studies at the University of Frankfurt, Germany. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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media|matter : the materiality of media|matter as medium

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...The year 1995 was an important year for film and media studies in at least two respects. The year when “the cinema” celebrated its 100th anniversary, Sony, Philips, Toshiba, and Time Warner agreed on a standard for a data carrier, formerly...

Figure|Ground: Stills from the Films of Bill Morrison

Bill Morrison

Bill Morrison

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Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...[all images courtesy of bill morrison–hypnotic pictures...

The Media Boundary Objects Concept: Theorizing Film and Media

Florian Hoof

Florian Hoof

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Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...This chapter critically explores the recent trends to include theoretical frameworks from science and technology studies to film and media theory. In this context, the concept of material semiotics, an approach that enhances the semiotic...

Brain Matter and New Phrenologies: Challenging Brains with Melancholy and Vice Versa

Benjamin Betka

Benjamin Betka

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Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...In Chuck Palahniuk’s short story Zombie, young brains flicker and expire. Promising students of American high schools combust under the pressure to succeed and make life-altering decisions: they obtain their school infirmaries...