[...After the Media]
News from the Slow-Fading Twentieth Century
Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy![Cover of the book [...After the Media] by Siegfried Zielinski, University of Minnesota Press](https://www.kuoky.com/images/2015/november/500x500/9781937561376-yDB3_500x.jpg)
| Author: | Siegfried Zielinski | ISBN: | 9781937561376 |
| Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press | Publication: | November 15, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Univocal Publishing | Language: | English |
| Author: | Siegfried Zielinski |
| ISBN: | 9781937561376 |
| Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press |
| Publication: | November 15, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Univocal Publishing |
| Language: | English |
The media are now redundant. In an overview of developments spanning the past seventy years, Siegfried Zielinski’s [ . . . After the Media] discusses how the means of technology-based communication assumed a systemic character and how theory, art, and criticism were operative in this process. Media-explicit thinking is contrasted with media-implicit thought. Points of contact with an arts perspective include a reinterpretation of the artist Nam June Paik and an introduction to the work of Jake and Dinos Chapman. The essay ends with two appeals. In an outline of a precise philology of exact things, Zielinski suggests possibilities of how things could proceed after the media. With a vade mecum against psychopathia medialis in the form of a manifesto, the book advocates for a distinction to be made between online existence and offline being.
The media are now redundant. In an overview of developments spanning the past seventy years, Siegfried Zielinski’s [ . . . After the Media] discusses how the means of technology-based communication assumed a systemic character and how theory, art, and criticism were operative in this process. Media-explicit thinking is contrasted with media-implicit thought. Points of contact with an arts perspective include a reinterpretation of the artist Nam June Paik and an introduction to the work of Jake and Dinos Chapman. The essay ends with two appeals. In an outline of a precise philology of exact things, Zielinski suggests possibilities of how things could proceed after the media. With a vade mecum against psychopathia medialis in the form of a manifesto, the book advocates for a distinction to be made between online existence and offline being.
