Sorgner, Stefan Lorenz2023-05-152023-05-152016https://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/3https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20613The article provides suggestions concerning the cultural relevance and embeddedness of dualist and non-dualist media and demonstrates that the presence or absence of certain types of media has extra-medial relevance that can contain ethical, political, and social meanings. When I am talking about these kinds of dualities I am referring to distinctions like the one between good and evil, mind and body, culture and nature, the material and the immaterial or the organic and the inorganic. The contemporary examples I mention paradigmatically represent the phenomenon in question. However, several other artists, composers and designers are central figures, too, e.g. Patricia Piccinini, Eduardo Kac, Stelarc.engPedigree of DualisticNon-Dualistic MediaExtramedial Meanings30010.25364/05.2:2016.1.210.25969/mediarep/194282617-3697