Featuring 28 leading international media scholars, Technics rethinks technology for the contemporary digital era, with cutting-edge theoretical, historiographical, and methodological interventions. The volume's contributors explore the ideas of Walter Benjamin, Ursula Le Guin, Bernhard Siegert, Gilbert Simondon, and Sylvia Wynter in conjunction with urgent questions concerning algorithmic media, digital infrastructures, generative AI, and geoengineering. An expansive collection of writings on media technologies in the digital age, Technics is an essential resource for students and scholars of film and media studies, digital humanities, science and technology studies, and the philosophy of technology.
| ISBN: | 9789048564552 |
| Publication date: | 16th April 2024 |
| Author: | Nicholas Baer, Annie van den Oever |
| Publisher: | Amsterdam University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 336 pages |
| Series: | The Key Debates |
| Genres: |
Filmmaking and production: technical and background skills Media studies Internet and digital media: arts and performance |