2018/1 ‒ Mediocene

Browsing 2018/1 ‒ Mediocene by Subject "ddc:700"

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    Abandoned Infrastructures. Technical Networks beyond Nature and Culture
    Schabacher, Gabriele (2018) , S. 127-145
    In der Diskussion des Anthropozäns spielen Infrastrukturen eine herausragende Rolle als Ausdruck des tiefen Eingriff s des Menschen in die Natur. Sie vermitteln den Planeten, indem sie die Beziehung zwischen Mensch und Umwelt mit langfristiger Wirkung grundlegend gestalten. Während Infrastrukturen als stabile Formationen verstanden werden, brauchen sie ständige Pflege, um richtig zu funktionieren. Vor diesem Hintergrund analysiert der Beitrag verlassene Infrastrukturen in Bezug auf ihren prekären Zustand zwischen Natur und Kultur, zwischen Leben und Tod, Fragilität und Stabilität
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    Editorial
    Engell, Lorenz; Siegert, Bernhard (2018) , S. 5-11
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    Entangled Trees and Arboreal Networks of Sensitive Environments
    Schneider, Birgit (2018) , S. 107-126
    The article discusses how current mediated conditions change nature perception from a media study perspective. The article is based on different case studies such as the current sensation of atmospheric change through sensible media attached to trees which get published via Twitter, the meteorologist Amazonian Tall Tower Observatory and the use of gutta percha derived from tropical trees for the production of cables in the history of telegraphy. For analysing the examples, the perspective of »media as environments« is flipped to »environments as media«, because this focus doesn’t approach media from a networked and technological perspective primarily but makes productive the elemental character of basic »media« like air, earth and water
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    Materializing the Medium: Staging the Age of Humans in the Exhibition Space
    Möllers, Nina (2018) , S. 85-101
    The article takes the world’s first exhibition on the geological and philosophical concept of the Anthropocene, »Welcome to the Anthropocene «, Deutsches Museum (2014-2016), as a starting point for initial theoretical reflections on the potential and limitations of exhibitions as media and designers of the Mediocene. On the basis of a discussion of image deployment, use of space and the materiality of objects, exhibitions are analyzed as ›slow media‹.
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    Medianatures
    Parikka, Jussi (2018) , S. 103-106
    The article outlines the concept of medianatures. The term is a neologism and in debt to Donna Haraway’s rather eloquent and important coinage naturecultures that already functioned to mark the constant co-becomings of supposedly separated spheres of nature and culture. Medianatures is a further elaboration that elaborates the tie between the earth materialities that are mobilized for technological infrastructures, visual technologies, applications and devices, and the onto- epistemological stance that then feeds back into understanding those planetary scale earth materialities in the first place: the techniques of vision, observation, calculation, and circulation that are part of the governance of the earth and its various localities.
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    The Technological Fact of Counterfactuals
    Kirkwood, Jeffrey West (2018) , S. 13-32
    Optical media were instrumental in transforming the conception of facts, objectivity, and the »real.« This paper considers their role in structuring understandings of counterfactuals and states that could not be real. By returning to Ernst Mach’s photographic ballistics experiments, writing on thought experiments (a term he coined), and his dispute with Max Planck about the nature of the Weltbild, the article shows that, despite his legacy as a positivist, Mach’s epistemology of mechanical images opened a legitimate space of indeterminacy, contingency, and counterfactuality.
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