2020 ‒ Schalten und Walten

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Editorial
Engell, Lorenz; Siegert, Bernhard (2020) , S. 5-11
Invading/Inviting: From Surveillance to Byzantium
Meurer, Ulrich (2020) , S. 157-173
While border surveillance produces geopolitical realities and distinctions between types of human life, Richard Mosse’s video installation INCOMING (2017) uses a military high-grade thermal camera to challenge this onto-political project. Recording refugee camps and crossings via the Mediterranean into Europe, his techno-images’ specific mosaic structure, tactility, and luminous flatness evoke the visual mode of Byzantine icons, thus switching from a paranoid, invasive world/view to an economy of mediation and contact with the Other.
Predicting and Shaping or How to Close the Future
Vagt, Christina (2020) , S. 117-124
Behavioral design of so called »persuasive computer technologies« is the result of a merger between psychology, economics, and computer engineering. The article discusses its genealogy from the strategic response of military, governmental, and academic players to the general problem that the behavior of complex systems such as humans, societies, or markets is difficult to predict, and that controlling these complex systems means shaping them by designing their technological and social environments.
ZMK Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung. Schalten und Walten
(2020)