Media Matter: The Materiality of Media, Matter as Medium (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781501320101)

Launching Bloomsbury's Thinking Media series, Media Matter introduces readers to the nascent field of media-philosophy. Contributors urge readers to re-adjust their ideas of Media Studies, by extending the understanding of medium to include a concept of materiality that also includes non-human transmitters (elements such as water, earth, fire, air) and also by understanding media not only in the context of cultural or discursive systems or apparatuses, relays, transistors, hardware or discourse networks, but more inclusively, in terms of a media ecology.

Beginning with more general essays on media and then focusing on particular themes (neuroplasticity, photography, sculpture and music), especially in relation to film, Herzogenrath and the contributors redefine the concept of medium in order to think through media, rather than about them.

Author: Bernd Herzogenrath
ISBN-10: 1501320106
ISBN-13: 9781501320101
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 02/23/2017
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.68d

About the Author
Bernd Herzogenrath is Professor of American Studies at the University of Frankfurt, Germany.