Full Description
Traffic: Media as Infrastructures and Cultural Practices presents texts by international media and cultural scholars that address the relationship between symbolic and infrastructural dimensions of media, analysing traffic in terms of media ecology, as epistemological principle, and as (trans-)formative power.
Contributors are: Menahem Blondheim, Grant David Bollmer, Richard Cavell, Wolf-Dieter Ernst, Norm Friesen, Elihu Katz, Peter Krapp, Martina Leeker, Jana Mangold, John Durham Peters, Gabriele Schabacher, Michael Steppat, Wolfgang Sützl, Hartmut Winkler
Contents
Marion Näser-Lather and Christoph Neubert: Traffic - Media as Infrastructures and Cultural Practices: Introduction
Section 1: Theorizing Traffic
John Durham Peters: Infrastructuralism: Media as Traffic Between Nature and Culture
Gabriele Schabacher: Traffic as 'Dirt Experience': Harold Innis's Tracing of Media
Jana Mangold: Traffic of Metaphor: Transport and Media at the Beginning of Media Theory
Hartmut Winkler: Traces: Does Traffic Retroact on the Media Infrastructure?
Section 2: Traffic of Concepts
Grant David Bollmer: Technobiological Traffic: Networks, Bodies, and the Management of Vitality
Norm Friesen: Dewey's Cosmic Traffic: Politics and Pedagogy as Communication
Richard Cavell: McLuhan, Turing, and the Question of Determinism
Martina Leeker and Michael Steppat: Data Traffic in Theater and Engineering: Between Technical Conditions and Illusions
Section 3: Time, Space, and Power
Menahem Blondheim and Elihu Katz: Communications in an Ancient Empire: An Innisian Reading of the Book of Esther
Peter Krapp: Nomads of the Technical Sublime
Wolfgang Suetzl: Street Protests, Electronic Disturbance, Smart Mobs: Dislocations of Resistance
Wolf-Dieter Ernst: Performing Traffic: On Mobile Aesthetics in Contemporary Theater and Travel
