Full Description
Media and human modes of existence are always already intertwined and interdependent. The notion of the anthropocene has further stimulated a new examination of ideas about human agency and responsibility. Various approaches all emphasize relational concepts and the situatedness and embodiment of human—and also non-human—existences and experiences. Their common interest has shifted from any so-called 'human nature' to the multitude of cultural, topographical, technical, historical, social, discursive, and media formats with which human existences are entangled.
This volume brings together a range of thinkers from international backgrounds and puts these important reflections and ideas in the spotlight. More specifically, the volume explores the concept of "anthropomedial entanglements." It fosters an understanding of human bodies, experiences, and media as being immanently entangled and mutually constituting, prior to any possible distinction between them. The different contributions thus open up a dialogue between empirical case studies and media-historical research on the one hand and the conceptual work of media and cultural philosophies and aesthetics on the other hand.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Anthropologies of Entanglements: An Introduction
Christiane Voss, Lorenz Engell, Tim Othold (Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany)
I. Milieus
1. Existing in Motion: Foundations for a Philosophical Media-Anthropology
Christiane Voss (Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany)
2. Tangled Efforts and Middle-Voiced Verbs
Jane Bennett (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
3. The Experience-Image and Collaborative Filmmaking - From Visual Anthropology to Media-Anthropological Practices
Julia Bee (University of Siegen, Germany)
4. A Life in the Interstices: Micropolitics and Aesthetics in Everyday Life
Christoph Carsten (Independent Scholar, Germany)
II. Practice and Process
5. Prosthesis for Feeling: Intensifying Potentiality through Media
Mark B.N. Hansen (Duke University, USA)
6. Chemæra
Jason Pine (Independent Scholar, USA)
7. In Control of Algorithms: Video Analytics and Human-machine Relations at the Train Station
Gabriele Schabacher (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany)
8. On the Anthropology of the mode double click
Lorenz Engell (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany)
9. Neutral Time
Philip Gries (Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany)
III. Bodies in Media
10. Unfolding Bodies. Art and Ontology of the American Northwest Coast
Bernhard Siegert (Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany)
11. Corporeal Literacy: Alphabetic Bodies and the Logic of the Cut
Maaike Bleeker (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
12.Torn, Crushed, Shredded. The Reconstruction of Wounded Bodies in World War I
Johanna Seifert (FernUniversität, Germany)
13. Material Dialectics of the Hard Body
Ivo Ritzer (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
14. She is Inseminating: On the Secret of Life in Claire Denis's Science Fiction Film High Life (2018)
Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)
Contributors
Index
