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Öffnen, Schließen, Zerstreuen, Verdichten. Die operativen Ontologien der Kulturtechnik

Author(s): Siegert, Bernhard

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The debate on the agency of objects, lead by philosophy, ethnology as well as cultural and media studies, has triggered a boom of ontologies, deconstructing the traditional concept of ontology. The contribution follows this shift of ontology, which no longer conceives of the media and media artifacts as substances, but as concatenations of practices and operations that are generated by media objects in the first place. To ask for ‘operational ontologies’ means to ask for the concrete ontical operations which first of all produce onto- logical distinctions – e. g. between form and matter, image and object, thing and process, figure and background. These ontical operations form the core of what we call cultural techniques. The contribution illustrates and explains this thesis with reference to hybrid objects from the material culture of the late Middle Ages and Early Modernity.

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Siegert, Bernhard: Öffnen, Schließen, Zerstreuen, Verdichten. Die operativen Ontologien der Kulturtechnik. In: ZMK Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung, Jg. 8 (2017), Nr. 2, S. 95-113. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18686.
@ARTICLE{Siegert2017,
 author = {Siegert, Bernhard},
 title = {Öffnen, Schließen, Zerstreuen, Verdichten. Die operativen Ontologien der Kulturtechnik},
 year = 2017,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18686}",
 volume = 8,
 address = {Hamburg},
 journal = {ZMK Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung},
 number = 2,
 pages = {95--113},
}
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