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[[Image:Zeitschrift_fuer_Medien-_und_Kulturforschung_1-2010.jpg|thumb|210px|''Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung'' 1: Kulturtechnik, 2010. In German. [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=8970 Download].]] | [[Image:Zeitschrift_fuer_Medien-_und_Kulturforschung_1-2010.jpg|thumb|210px|''Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung'' 1: Kulturtechnik, 2010. In German. [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=8970 Download].]] | ||
[[Image:TCS_30_6_Cultural_Techniques.jpg|thumb|210px|''Theory, Culture & Society'' 30(6), Special Issue: Cultural Techniques, 2013. [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=9650 Download].]] | [[Image:TCS_30_6_Cultural_Techniques.jpg|thumb|210px|''Theory, Culture & Society'' 30(6), Special Issue: Cultural Techniques, 2013. [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=9650 Download].]] | ||
− | * [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=8970 ''Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung'' 1 | + | * [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=8970 ''Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung'' 1: "Kulturtechnik"], eds. Lorenz Engell and Bernhard Siegert, Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 2010. {{de}} [http://ikkm-weimar.de/publikationen/zeitschrift/10_1_inhalt/prm/269/cs__11/index.html] |
** Lorenz Engell, Bernhard Siegert, "[http://ikkm-weimar.de/frontend/file.php?id=794&dl=1 Editorial]", pp 5–9. | ** Lorenz Engell, Bernhard Siegert, "[http://ikkm-weimar.de/frontend/file.php?id=794&dl=1 Editorial]", pp 5–9. | ||
** Erhard Schüttpelz, "[http://ikkm-weimar.de/frontend/file.php?id=788&dl=1 Körpertechniken]", pp 101–120. | ** Erhard Schüttpelz, "[http://ikkm-weimar.de/frontend/file.php?id=788&dl=1 Körpertechniken]", pp 101–120. | ||
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** Susan Leigh Star, "Residual Categories: Silence, Absence and Being an Other", pp 201–219. | ** Susan Leigh Star, "Residual Categories: Silence, Absence and Being an Other", pp 201–219. | ||
− | * [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=9650 ''Theory, Culture & Society'' 30(6) | + | * [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=9650 ''Theory, Culture & Society'' 30(6): "Cultural Techniques"], eds. Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, Ilinca Irascu and Jussi Parikka, Nov 2013. |
** Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, [[Media:Winthrop-Young_Geoffrey_2013_Cultural_Techniques_Preliminary_Remarks.pdf|"Cultural Techniques: Preliminary Remarks"]], pp 3-19. | ** Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, [[Media:Winthrop-Young_Geoffrey_2013_Cultural_Techniques_Preliminary_Remarks.pdf|"Cultural Techniques: Preliminary Remarks"]], pp 3-19. | ||
** Sybille Krämer, Horst Bredekamp, [[Media:Kraemer_Sybille_Bredekamp_Horst_2003_2013_Culture_Technology_Cultural_Techniques_Moving_Beyond_Text.pdf|"Culture, Technology, Cultural Techniques: Moving beyond Text"]], pp 20-29. Orig. in German, 2003 (see above). | ** Sybille Krämer, Horst Bredekamp, [[Media:Kraemer_Sybille_Bredekamp_Horst_2003_2013_Culture_Technology_Cultural_Techniques_Moving_Beyond_Text.pdf|"Culture, Technology, Cultural Techniques: Moving beyond Text"]], pp 20-29. Orig. in German, 2003 (see above). | ||
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** Jussi Parikka, [[Media:Parikka_Jussi_2013_Afterword_Cultural_Techniques_and_Media_Studies.pdf|"Afterword: Cultural Techniques and Media Studies"]], pp 147-159. | ** Jussi Parikka, [[Media:Parikka_Jussi_2013_Afterword_Cultural_Techniques_and_Media_Studies.pdf|"Afterword: Cultural Techniques and Media Studies"]], pp 147-159. | ||
** Liam Cole Young, [[Media:Young_Liam_Cole_2013_Files_Lists_and_the_Material_History_of_the_Law.pdf|"Files, Lists, and the Material History of the Law"]], pp 160-172. Review of Cornelia Vismann's ''Files: Law and Media Technology''. | ** Liam Cole Young, [[Media:Young_Liam_Cole_2013_Files_Lists_and_the_Material_History_of_the_Law.pdf|"Files, Lists, and the Material History of the Law"]], pp 160-172. Review of Cornelia Vismann's ''Files: Law and Media Technology''. | ||
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===Book chapters, Papers, Articles, Interviews=== | ===Book chapters, Papers, Articles, Interviews=== |
Revision as of 12:07, 20 April 2020
From the German term Kulturtechniken, which may be rendered in English as cultural techniques, cultural technologies, cultural technics, or culturing techniques.
Kulturtechniken is a concept linked to developments in Germanophone media theory in the previous decade (2000s). Emerging in the late 19th century in the domain of agricultural engineering, the notion of cultural techniques was later employed to describe the interactions between humans and media, and, most recently, to "account for basic operations and differentiations that give rise to an array of conceptual and ontological entities which are said to constitute culture." As Geoffrey Winthrop-Young further argues in a thematic issue of Theory, Culture & Society, "cultural techniques [..] transcend the confines of literary studies, media theory and cultural studies and enter the domain of philosophy and anthropology." (2013: 5)
The concept is often explained through a now canonical passage by cultural historian Thomas Macho:
"Cultural techniques – such as writing, reading, painting, counting, making music – are always older than the concepts that are generated from them. People wrote long before they conceptualized writing or alphabets; millennia passed before pictures and statues gave rise to the concept of the image; and until today, people sing or make music without knowing anything about tones or musical notation systems. Counting, too, is older than the notion of numbers. To be sure, most cultures counted or performed certain mathematical operations; but they did not necessarily derive from this a concept of number." (Macho, 2003: 179)
The introduction of the concept into media theory is intertwined with the work of Friedrich Kittler and the Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik, an interdisciplinary academic institute founded in 1999 by eight professors from Berlin universities. The following years saw numerous, largely German publications, notably in the special book series of major humanities publishers (Wilhelm Fink, diaphanes). An English volume on cultural techniques is forthcoming from Fordham University Press.
Key terms
colere, culture, Cultur, Kultur, techné, technique, Technik
Institutes
- Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik (HZK) at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Founded in 1999.
- Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Founded in 2008 by Lorenz Engell and Bernhard Siegert. [1]
- Geschichte und Theorie der Kulturtechniken at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Gabriele Schabacher and Bernhard Siegert.
Events
- Theatrum naturae et artis exhibition, Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 2000-2001.
Theorists
Literature
Book series
- Kulturtechnik (Fink) [2]
- Sybille Krämer, Horst Bredekamp (eds.), Bild, Schrift, Zahl, Munich: Fink, 2003. Second edition, 2009. (German) [3]
- Sybille Krämer, Horst Bredekamp, "Kultur, Technik, Kulturtechnik: Wider die Diskursivierung der Kultur", pp 11–22.
- Thomas Macho, "Zeit und Zahl: Kalender- und Zeitrechnung als Kulturtechniken", pp 179–192.
- Gernot Grube, Werner Kogge, Sybille Krämer (eds.), Schrift: Kulturtechnik zwischen Auge, Hand und Maschine, Munich: Fink, 2005, 472 pp. ISBN 978-3-7705-4190-4. (German) [4] [5]
- Jochen Brüning, Eberhard Knobloch (eds.), Die mathematischen Wurzeln der Kultur: Mathematische Innovationen und ihre kulturellen Folgen, Munich: Fink, 2005, 193 pp. ISBN 978-3-7705-4016-7. (German) [6]
- Wolfgang Ernst, Friedrich Kittler (eds.), Die Geburt des Vokalalphabets aus dem Geist der Poesie: Schrift, Zahl und Ton im Medienverbund, Munich: Fink, 2006, 314 pp. ISBN 978-3-7705-4267-3. (German) [7]
- Horst Bredekamp, Pablo Schneider (eds.), Visuelle Argumentationen: Die Mysterien der Repräsentation und die Berechenbarkeit der Welt, Munich: Fink, 2006, 266 pp. (German) [8]
- Friedrich Kittler, Ana Ofak (eds.), Medien vor den Medien, Munich: Fink, 2007, 282 pp. ISBN 978-3-7705-4284-0. (German) [9]
- Ana Ofak, Philipp von Hilgers (eds.), Rekursionen: Von Faltungen des Wissens, Munich: Fink, 2010, 266 pp. ISBN 978-3-7705-4678-7. (German) [10] Review: Vehlken (2010).
- Horst Bredekamp, Christiane Kruse, Pablo Schneider (eds.), Imagination und Repräsentation: Zwei Bildsphären der Frühen Neuzeit, Munich: Fink, 2010, 362 pp. ISBN 978-3-7705-4591-9. (German) [11]
- Thomas Macho, Christian Kassung, Kulturtechniken der Synchronisation, Munich: Fink, 2013, 413 pp. ISBN 978-3-7705-4808-8. (German) [12]
- Daidalia - Studien und Materialien zur Geschichte und Theorie der Kulturtechniken (diaphanes) [13]
Edited by Bernhard Siegert and Daniel Gethmann.
- Hubert Damisch, Der Ursprung der Perspektive: Perspektive als Kulturtechnik und als Denkmodell, Zürich: diaphanes, 2010, 448 pp. ISBN 978-3-03734-087-5. (German) Translated from the French by Heinz Jatho. [14]
More books
- Jürgen Barkhoff, Hartmut Böhme, Jeanne Riou (eds.), Netzwerke: Eine Kulturtechnik der Moderne, Cologne/Weimar/Vienna: Böhlau, 2004. (German) [15]
- Carolin Meister, Legenden. Zur Sichtbarkeit der Bildbeschreibung, Zürich: diaphanes, 2005, 224 pp. ISBN 978-3-935300-96-4. (German) [16]
- Sebastian Gießmann, Netze und Netzwerke. Archäologie einer Kulturtechnik, 1740-1840, Bielefeld: transcript, 2006, 114 pp. ISBN 978-3899424386. (German)
- Tobias Nanz, Bernhard Siegert (eds.), ex machina. Beiträge zur Geschichte der Kulturtechniken, Weimar: VDG, 2006, 321 pp. (German) [17]
- Christian Holtorf, Claus Pias (eds.), Escape!: Computerspiele als Kulturtechnik, Cologne: Böhlau, 2007. (German) Contents.
- Daniel Gethmann, Susanne Hauser (eds.), Kulturtechnik Entwerfen. Praktiken, Konzepte und Medien in Architektur und Design Science, Bielefeld: transcript, 2009. (German) Introduction.
- Ulrike Bergermann et al (eds.), Das Planetarische: Kultur-Technik-Medien im postglobalen Zeitalter, Munich: Fink, 2010. (German)
- Tobias Nanz, Grenzverkehr. Eine Mediengeschichte der Diplomatie, Zürich: diaphanes, 2010, 224 pp. ISBN 978-3-03734-105-6. (German) [18]
- Tobias Nanz, Armin Schäfer (eds.), Kulturtechniken des Barock, Berlin: Kadmos, 2013, 245 pp. ISBN 978-3-86599-184-3. [19]
- Gert Hasenhütl, Politik und Poetik des Entwerfens. Kulturtechnik der Handzeichnung, Vienna, 2013. (German)
- Bernhard Siegert, Cultural Techniques: Grids, Filters, Doors, and Other Articulations of the Real, trans. Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, Fordham University Press, 2014, 288 pp. Reviews: Geoghegan (2014), Young (2015).
- Liam Cole Young List Cultures: Knowledge and Poetics from Mesopotamia to BuzzFeed. Amsterdam University Press, 2017. Introduction + TOC
- List of books on IKKM Weimar, List of books on GTK Weimar.
Journal issues and Special sections
- Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung 1: "Kulturtechnik", eds. Lorenz Engell and Bernhard Siegert, Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 2010. (German) [20]
- Lorenz Engell, Bernhard Siegert, "Editorial", pp 5–9.
- Erhard Schüttpelz, "Körpertechniken", pp 101–120.
- Harun Maye, "Was ist eine Kulturtechnik?", pp 121–136.
- Wolfgang Schäffner, "Elemente architektonischer Medien", pp 137–149.
- Bernhard Siegert, "Türen. Zur Materialität des Symbolischen", pp 151–170.
- "Doors: On the Materiality of the Symbolic", trans. John Durham Peters, Grey Room 47 (Spring 2012), pp 6–23. [21]
- Cornelia Vismann, "Kulturtechniken und Souveränität", pp 171–181.
- Manfred Schneider, "Die Hand und die Technik. Eine Fundamentalcheirologie", pp 183–200.
- Susan Leigh Star, "Residual Categories: Silence, Absence and Being an Other", pp 201–219.
- Theory, Culture & Society 30(6): "Cultural Techniques", eds. Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, Ilinca Irascu and Jussi Parikka, Nov 2013.
- Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, "Cultural Techniques: Preliminary Remarks", pp 3-19.
- Sybille Krämer, Horst Bredekamp, "Culture, Technology, Cultural Techniques: Moving beyond Text", pp 20-29. Orig. in German, 2003 (see above).
- Thomas Macho, "Second-Order Animals: Cultural Techniques of Identity and Identification", pp 30-47. Orig. in German, 2008 (see below).
- Bernhard Siegert, "Cultural Techniques, or the End of the Intellectual Postwar Era in German Media Theory", pp 48-65.
- Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, "After Kittler: On the Cultural Techniques of Recent German Media Theory", pp 66-82.
- Cornelia Vismann, "Cultural Techniques and Sovereignty", pp 83-93. Orig. in German, 2010 (see above).
- Markus Krajewski, "The Power of Small Gestures: On the Cultural Technique of Service", pp 94-109.
- Sebastian Vehlken, "Zootechnologies: Swarming as a Cultural Technique", pp 110-131.
- Wolfgang Ernst, "From Media History to Zeitkritik", pp 132-146.
- Jussi Parikka, "Afterword: Cultural Techniques and Media Studies", pp 147-159.
- Liam Cole Young, "Files, Lists, and the Material History of the Law", pp 160-172. Review of Cornelia Vismann's Files: Law and Media Technology.
- Tiszatáj 71(2): "A műveléstől a műveletig: kultúrtechnikák", Szeged, Jul 2017, pp 53-104, HTML, PDFs. (Hungarian)
Book chapters, Papers, Articles, Interviews
- Bernhard Siegert, "Kakographie oder Kommunikation? Verhältnisse zwischen Kulturtechnik und Parasitentum", Archiv für Mediengeschichte 1 (2001). (German)
- Bernhard Siegert, "(Nicht) Am Ort. Zum Raster als Kulturtechnik", Thesis 49:3 (2003), pp 93-104. (German)
- Sybille Krämer, "Technik als Kulturtechnik. Kleines Plädoyer für eine kulturanthropologische Erweiterung des Technikkonzeptes", in Technik – System – Verantwortung, ed. Klaus Kornwachs, Münster, 2004, pp 157-164. (German)
- Wolfgang Ernst, "Von der Mediengeschichte zur Zeitkritik", in: Engell, Siegert, Vogl (eds.), Kulturgeschichte als Mediengeschichte (oder vice versa?), Weimar: Universitatsverlag, 2006, pp 23–32. (German)
- Sybille Krämer, "The Cultural Techniques of Time Axis Manipulation: On Friedrich Kittler’s Conception of Media", Theory Culture Society 23:7-8 (2006), Special Section on Friedrich Kittler, pp 93-109. [22]
- Erhard Schüttpelz, "Die medienanthropologische Kehre der Kulturtechniken", Archiv für Mediengeschichte 6: "Kulturgeschichte als Mediengeschichte (oder vice versa)?", eds. Engell, Siegert and Vogl, Weimar: Universitatsverlag, 2006, pp 87–110. (German)
- Bernhard Siegert, "Cacography or Communication? Cultural Techniques in German Media Studies", trans. Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, Grey Room 29 (Fall 2007), pp 26-47.
- Bernhard Siegert, "parlêtres. Zur kulturtechnischen Gabe und Barre der anthropologischen Differenz", in: Anne von der Heiden, Joseph Vogl (eds.), Politische Zoologie, Berlin-Zürich: diaphanes, 2007, pp 23-37. (German) [23]
- Bernhard Siegert, "Cultural Techniques of Ruling Spaces – Raumbeherrschung", in: Architecture of the Medial Spaces: Bauhaus Lectures Dessau 16-17 May 06 Dessau, eds. Joachim Krausse and Stephan Pinkau, Dessau, 2008, pp 16-26.
- Thomas Macho, "Tiere zweiter Ordnung. Kulturtechniken der Identitat", in Über Kultur. Theorie und Praxis der Kulturreflexion, eds. Baecker, Kettner and Rustemeyer, Bielefeld: transcript, 2008, pp 99–117. (German) [24]
- Gloria Meynen, "Die Insel als Kulturtechnik (Ein Entwurf)", Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft 2 (1/2010), Zürich: diaphanes, pp 79–91. (German)
- Tara Rodgers, Jonathan Sterne, "Poetik der Signalverarbeitung", Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft 5 (2/2011), Zürich: diaphanes, pp 122–137. (German)
- Bernhard Siegert, "Kulturtechnik", in Einführung in die Kulturwissenschaft, eds. Harun Maye and Leander Scholz, Munich, 2011, pp 95-118. (German)
- Bernhard Siegert, "The map is the territory", Radical Philosophy 169, "Dossier: What is German Media Philosophy?", Sep/Oct 2011, pp 13-16. Lecture (audio), 20 min, 2011.
- Monika Dommann, "Warenräume und Raumökonomien: Kulturtechniken des Lagerns", Tumult. Schriften zur Verkehrswissenschaft 38 (2012), pp 50-62. (German)
- Harun Maye, "Medien und Kulturtechniken", in Handbuch Medienwissenschaft, ed. Jens Schröter, Stuttgart/Weimar, 2014, pp 174-178. (German)
- Melle Kromhout, Peter McMurray, "More Things in Theory Than Heaven and Earth are Dreaming Of. A conversation with Geoffrey Winthrop-Young", Digital Passage blog, 22 Dec 2014.
- Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, "The Kultur of Cultural Techniques: Conceptual Inertia and the Parasitic Materialities of Ontologization", Cultural Politics 10:3 (2014), pp 376-388.
- Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, "Kittler’s Siren Recursions", in Kittler Now: Current Perspectives in Kittler Studies, eds. Stephen Sale and Laura Salisbury, Polity Press, 2015.
- Liam Cole Young, "Cultural Techniques and Logistical Media: Tuning German and Anglo-American Media Studies", M/C Journal 18:2 (2015).
- Ute Holl, "Media Theory (or, and, Despite) a Theory of Cultural Techniques", Texte zur Kunst 98: "Media", Jun 2015, pp 80-87. [25]
- Bernhard Siegert, "Coding as Cultural Technique: On the Emergence of the Digital from Writing AC", Grey Room 70, Winter 2018, pp 6-23.
Primary references
- Kulturtechnik as agricultural engineering
- Friedrich Wilhelm Dunckelberg, 2 Vols., Encyclopädie und Methodologie der Culturtechnik. Zum Gebrauch an landwirthschaftlichen und technischen Lehranstalten, Braunschweig: Bieweg, 1883. (German)
- Emil Perels, Abhandlungen über Kulturtechnik, Jena, 1889. (German)
- Christian August Vogler, Grundlehren der Kulturtechnik, 2 Vols., Berlin, 1898. (German) The book counted chemistry, mineralogy, botany, mechanics, hydraulics, economics, water management, manufacturing, and law among the constituents of Kulturtechnik.
- Philosophy of technology and Media anthropology
- Marcell Mauss, "Les techniques du corps", Journal de Psychologie 32:3-4 (Mar-Apr 1936), pp 271-293; repr. in Mauss, Sociologie et anthropologie, 1950; 1973. Paper presented at the Société de Psychologie, 17 May 1934. [26] [27] (French)
- Martin Heidegger, "Die Frage nach der Technik", in Die Künste im technischen Zeitalter. Dritte Folge des Jahrbuchs Gestalt und Gedanke, ed. Bayerischen Akademie der Schönen Kunste, Munich: Oldenbourg, 1954, pp 70-108; reprinted in Heidegger, Vorträge und Aufsätze, Pfullingen: Günther Neske, 1954, pp 9-40; reprinted in Heidegger, Die Technik und die Kehre, Pfullingen: Günther Neske, 1962, pp 5-36 ("Die Kehre" appears there on 37-47); reprinted in Heidegger, Gesamtausgabe: I. Abt. Bd. 7: Vorträge und Aufsätze, Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 2000, pp 5-36 ("Das Ding" appears there on pp 165-187). (German) In the 1962 book, the following prefatory note appears regarding two essays, "Die Frage nach der Technik" [The Question Concerning Technology] and "Die Kehre" [The Turning]: "Under the title 'Insight into That Which Is', the author gave, on 1 December 1949, in the Club at Bremen, four lectures, which were repeated without alterations on 25-26 March 1950 at Bühlerhöhe. The titles were 'Das Ding' [The Thing], 'Das Gestell' [Enframing], 'Die Gefahr' [The Danger], 'Die Kehre' [The Turning]. The first lecture was given in an expanded version on 6 June 1950, before the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. The second lecture was given on 18 November 1955, also in an expanded version, under the title 'The Question Concerning Technology' in the series entitled The Arts in the Technological Age. The present volume repeats this text unaltered. The third lecture remains still unpublished. The fourth lecture, 'The Turning', is published here for the first time according to the first unaltered version."
- André Leroi-Gourhan, Le geste et la parole: Technique et langage & La mémoire et les rythmes, 2 vols., Paris: Albin Michel, 1964-65. (French)
- Kulturtechnik in elementary pedagogy
- Angela Fritz, Alexandra Suess, Lesen: Die Bedeutung der Kulturtechnik Lesen für den Gesellschaftlichen Kommunikationsprozess, Konstanz: Universitats Verlag, 1986, 180 pp. ISBN 387940299X. (German)
See also
Links
- Lucas Introna, "A Fundamental Critique of the Technological Attitude", part of "Phenomenological Approaches to Ethics and Information Technology", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- Cultural techniques at German Wikipedia