Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XI, 259 Seiten)
,
color illustrations
ISBN:
9789004298774
Series Statement:
At the interface/probing the boundaries Volume 88
Content:
Preliminary Material /Marion Näser-Lather and Christoph Neubert -- Traffic – Media as Infrastructures and Cultural Practices: Introduction /Marion Näser-Lather and Christoph Neubert -- Infrastructuralism: Media as Traffic between Nature and Culture /John Durham Peters -- Traffic as ‘Dirt Experience’: Harold Innis’s Tracing of Media /Gabriele Schabacher -- Traffic of Metaphor: Transport and Media at the Beginning of Media Theory /Jana Mangold -- Traces: Does Traffic Retroact on the Media Infrastructure? /Hartmut Winkler -- Technobiological Traffic: Networks, Bodies, and the Management of Vitality /Grant David Bollmer -- Dewey’s Cosmic Traffic: Politics and Pedagogy as Communication /Norm Friesen -- McLuhan, Turing, and the Question of Determinism /Richard Cavell -- Data Traffic in Theater and Engineering: Between Technical Conditions and Illusions /Martina Leeker and Michael Steppat -- Communications in an Ancient Empire: An Innisian Reading of the Book of Esther /Menahem Blondheim and Elihu Katz -- Nomads of the Technical Sublime /Peter Krapp -- Street Protests, Electronic Disturbance, Smart Mobs: Dislocations of Resistance /Wolfgang Sützl -- Performing Traffic: On Mobile Aesthetics in Contemporary Theater and Travel /Wolf-Dieter Ernst -- Index /Marion Näser-Lather and Christoph Neubert.
Content:
Traffic: Media as Infrastructures and Cultural Practices presents a collection of texts by distinguished international media and cultural scholars that addresses fundamental relationships between the logistic, symbolic, and infrastructural dimensions of media. The volume discusses the role of traffic and infrastructures within the history of media theory as well as in a broader cultural context: Traffic is shown to constitute an important epistemological and technical principle, a paradigm for exchanges and circulations between discoursive and non-discoursive cultural practices. This opens an encompassing perspective of media ecology, and at the same time illuminates the formative power of traffic as structuring time and space: material and informational traffic creates, maintains, and undermines power, configures meaning, and facilitates appropriation and resistance
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004299801
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Traffic Leiden : Brill Rodopi, 2015 ISBN 9789004299801
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Medien
;
Verkehr
;
Metapher
;
Kulturelles System
;
Austausch
;
Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1163/9789004298774
Author information:
Neubert, Christoph
Author information:
Näser-Lather, Marion 1977-
