Technics: Media in the Digital Age (1) (The Key Debates: Mutations and Appropriations in European Film Studies)

By: Nicholas Baer and van den Oever, Annie

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Synopsis: Featuring 28 leading international media scholars, Technics rethinks technology for the contemporary digital era, with cutting-edge theoretical, historiographical, and methodological interventions. The volume’s contributors explore the ideas of Walter Benjamin, Ursula Le Guin, Bernhard Siegert, Gilbert Simondon, and Sylvia Wynter in conjunction with urgent questions concerning algorithmic media, digital infrastructures, generative AI, and geoengineering. An expansive collection of writings on media technologies in the digital age, Technics is an essential resource for students and scholars of film and media studies, digital humanities, science and technology studies, and the philosophy of technology.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 336 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781040782378
Related ISBNs:: 9789048564552, 9781040773666, 9781041187059, 9781003704959
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 10/01/25
Copyrighted By:: Nicholas Baer and Annie van den Oever / Taylor & Francis Group
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Nicholas Baer
Edited by:: Annie Oever