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This book examines how one aspect of the social and technological situation of literature--namely, the postal system--determined how literature was produced and what was produced within literature. Language itself has the structure of a relay, where what is transmitted depends on a prior withholding. The social arrangements and technologies for achieving this transmission thus have had a particularly powerful impact on the imagination of literature as a medium. The book has three parts. The first part reconstructs the postal conditions of classic and Romantic literature: the invention of...

Das Meer ist die größte Medientheoriemaschine der Welt. Denn „Welt“ muss auf See immer erst medientechnisch ermöglicht werden. Die primäre Infrastruktur, durch die das Meer operationalisiert und historisiert wird, ist das Schiff.
Bernhard Siegerts groß angelegte Medienarchäologie des Meeres handelt vom Schiff und vom Meer als der Final Frontier des menschlichen Habitats, des Rechts, des Krieges, der Ästhetik, des Bildes und des Zeichens, durch die diese ihr eigenes Medienapriori reflektieren. Von der res nullius bis zum Torpedoboot, von der Verstaatlichung des Meeres im...

In a crucial shift within posthumanistic media studies, Bernhard Siegert dissolves the concept of media into a network of operations that reproduce, displace, process, and reflect the distinctions fundamental for a given culture. Cultural Techniques aims to forget our traditional understanding of media so as to redefine the concept through something more fundamental than the empiricist study of a medium's individual or collective uses or of its cultural semantics or aesthetics. Rather, Siegert seeks to relocate media and culture on a level where the distinctions between object and...

In a crucial shift within posthumanistic media studies, Bernhard Siegert dissolves the concept of media into a network of operations that reproduce, displace, process, and reflect the distinctions fundamental for a given culture. Cultural Techniques aims to forget our traditional understanding of media so as to redefine the concept through something more fundamental than the empiricist study of a medium's individual or collective uses or of its cultural semantics or aesthetics. Rather, Siegert seeks to relocate media and culture on a level where the distinctions between object and...

Mit Beitragen von Inge Baxmann, Annette Bitsch, Robert Brain, Bernhard J. Dotzler, Michael Franz, Rodolphe Gasche, Hans-Christian von Herrmann, Ute Holl, Anton Kaes, Alexandre Metraux, Wolfgang Schaffner, Bernhard Siegert und Robert Stockhammer