W. J. T. Mitchell, Mark B. N. Hansen (eds.): Critical Terms for Media Studies (2010)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, autopoiesis, body, communication, cybernetics, image, information theory, language, law, mass media, media, media studies, media theory, memory, networks, posthuman, software, technology, writing
“Part of a larger conversation that engages culture, technology, and politics, this collection of essays explores critical language for dealing with the qualities and modes of contemporary media. The essays, commissioned expressly for this volume, are organized into three interrelated groups: “Aesthetics” engages with terms that describe sensory experiences and judgments, “Technology” offers entry into a broad array of technological concepts, and “Society” opens up language describing the systems that allow a medium to function.”
Contributors: Johanna Drucker (Art), Bernadette Wegenstein (Body), Bill Brown (Materiality), Bernard Stiegler (Memory), Caroline Jones (Senses), Eugene Thacker (Biomedia), Bruce Clarke (Communication, Information), N. Katherine Hayles (Cybernetics), Geoffrey Winthrop-Young (Hardware / Software / Wetware), John Johnston (Technology), David Graeber (Exchange), Cary Wolfe (Language), Peter Goodrich (Law), John Durham Peters (Mass Media), Alexander R. Galloway (Networks), David Wellbery (Systems), Lydia H. Liu (Writing), and W. J. T. Mitchell and Mark B. N. Hansen (Image, Time and Space, New Media).
Publisher University of Chicago Press, 2010
ISBN 0226532666, 9780226532660
376 pages
Stewart Brand: The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT (1987)
Filed under book | Tags: · artificial intelligence, communication, computer graphics, computing, human-computer interaction, information, media, music, new media, programming, publishing, robotics, science fiction, speech, technology, television
A magical mystery tour through the world of MIT’s Media Laboratory, then headed by Nicholas Negroponte and in its third year of existence. Chapter 11 develops the dictum “information wants to be free.”
Publisher Viking, New York, 1987
ISBN 0670814423
285 pages
Review (Visual Resources, 1989)
Review (AI Magazine, Lee S. Brownston, 1990)
PDF (50 MB, updated on 2014-3-26 to an OCR’d version via Marcell Mars)
Comment (0)Philip Marchand: Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the Messenger (1989)
Filed under book | Tags: · advertising, biography, communication, mass media, media, media theory, print, radio, religion, technology, television
He was described as “the greatest put-on artist of all time” and even as the greatest intellectual pioneer since Freud. Bouncing back and forth between the quiet University of Toronto campus and the glitzy world of the New York media, McLuhan was surely the most unlikely prophet of the sixties, yet his work underlies any serious discussion of the effects of media on our lives. (from the back cover)
Publisher Ticknor & Fields, New York, 1989
ISBN 0899194850
320 pages
Review (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times Books, 1989)
Review (E. Hamilton, Canadian Literature, 2001)
Review (Robert McKenzie, IPCT, 1994)
Review (William H. Melody, Information, Communication & Society, undated)
PDF (50 MB, no OCR)
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