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.engCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 GenericPedigree of DualisticNon-Dualistic MediaExtramedial Meanings300The Pedigree of Dualistic and Non-Dualistic Media: Grasping Extramedial Meanings10.25364/05.2:2016.1.210.25969/mediarep/194282617-3697