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Medienästhetik. Einführung in den Schwerpunkt

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This special issue strives to radically reconceive aesthetics as media aesthetics. The background is a far-reaching historical transposition, the precise contours of which are increasingly beginning to emerge: the process of cybernetization since 1950, which was again intensified when it entered into media-technological process culture as found in the the multiscalar, network-based, environmental, atmospheric media of the twenty-first century, caused the meaning and position of the aesthetic as such to shift; a privileging of the aesthetic has taken place, and the new description of the aesthetic has advanced to become one of the key diagnostic tasks of media studies. What is being examined today under the rubric of media aesthetics is no longer merely the connections between the evolution of media-technical object cultures and the modes of our perceptions and sensations, but rather a way of thinking about the more extensive sensational realms of new machinic arrangements and collectives encompassing a multitude of human and nonhuman forces of action.

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Hansen, Mark B.N.; Hörl, Erich: Medienästhetik. Einführung in den Schwerpunkt. In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, Jg. 8 (2013), Nr. 1, S. 10-17.10.25969/mediarep/669
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