How are human actions shaped by the materiality of media?&nbsp; Contemporary media leads us more than ever to an 'acting at a distance,' an acting entangled with the materiality of communication and the mediality of transmission. This book explores this crucial phenomenon thereby introducing urgent questions of human interaction, the binding and breaking of time and space, and the entanglement of the material and the immaterial.&nbsp; Three vivid inquiries deal with histories and theories of mediality and materiality: John Durham Peters looks at episodes of simultaneity and synchronization. Christina Vagt discusses the agency of computer models against the backdrop of aesthetic theories by Henri Bergson and Hans Blumenberg, and Florian Sprenger discusses early electrical transmissions through copper wire and the temporality of instantaneity.&nbsp;

Action at a Distance (In Search of Media)

Politics & Social Sciences

Peters, John Durham

Sprenger, Florian

Vagt, Christina

Social Sciences

Meson Press

Ökologien der Erde: Zur Wissensgeschichte und Aktualität der Gaia-Hypothese (Digital Cultures) (German Edition)

Löffler, Petra

Friedrich, Alexander

Meson Press Eg

With its diversity of possible Umwelten or environments for living things, Jakob von Uexküll's Umwelt theory has been hailed by many readers as the first step toward an innovative, pluralistic conception of nonhuman life. But what is generally ignored is its structural conservatism, its identitarian logic in which everything should remain in its place and nothing should mix, and its proximity to Nazi ideology and politics. By turning the spotlight on these neglected aspects, Uexküll's Surroundings opens up a new perspective on Uexküll's Umwelt theory.

Uexküll's Surroundings: Umwelt Theory and Right-Wing Thought (Future Ecologies)

Schnödl, Gottfried

Philosophy

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