... The introductory chapter situates participatory initiatives that equip dehumanized subjects with documentary media as humanitarian media interventions. It defines the concept of “immediations” as a documentary ethic that prioritizes immediacy over analysis. Whereas documentary tropes of...

... An ongoing conversation about ethnographic writing, excess, mediation, and immediacy continues (or lives on) within this essay. ...

... immediacy of live performance; at the same time, this effect was produced from within an environment of mechanical reproduced sounds and repetitive listening. In Two Stars in the Milky Way, one of a number of partial-sound productions from the transitional period, we witness how the incorporation of film...

... technological revolution. Rather, the indexical nature of the photographic imprint shares ontological immediacies with originary Ancestral imprintation, conjoining in her work, to command a new revelatory potency. The mediatory capacities of the digital allow the real work of tradition to reveal itself. ...

... of intersubjectivity as lived immediacy, as a precognitive sensibility, can provide an ethical grounding for a vision of improvised music, and of the world, as a place of continuing interlinked performances. ...

... Musical improvisation may be understood as the negotiation of subjectivities in the immediacy of the intercorporeal encounter. Safa is an intercultural Canadian musical ensemble that combines Iranian classical music, free jazz, and Latin percussion. The musicians are invested in maintaining...

... epistemologies of “networked relations”; and the creative, expressive labor required to secure the immediacy of satellite radio’s mediation. ...

... Queensland. The chapter thus foregrounds the expressive, collective, and technically demanding labor required to secure radio’s seeming immediacy, liveness, and social purchase. ...

... This chapter situates the humanitarian emergency as a genre of live media event that brings together two optics of immediacy: the humanitarian emergency and the televisual discourse of catastrophe. It traces the merger of these optics in the transformation of “liveness,” arguing that this...