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.... Krämer calls this “mediality.” One of the basic claims of Medium, Messenger, Transmission is that mediality should be understood as nothing less than “an elementary dimension of human life and culture” (75). The figure that incarnates this claim is the topos of the messenger. The messenger is also...

.... This is followed by the unraveling of three layers that have constituted the 1999 scandal following Sloterdijk’s reply to Heidegger’s letter On Humanism : Sloterdijk’s actual text on humanism and Bildung in the age of genetic engineering; the scandal and the mass-medialization of philosophical critique...

... reason is defined by its vassalage, apostolate, and mediality in relation to a commanding and disinhibiting reality. Its forerunners are champions of “good crime” such as Marquis de Sade and the young Hegelians; its exemplary twentieth-century cases are Lenin and Mao. Alain Badiou is right to note...

... and representational art, to experiments with site-specific, inter-medial installations. This turn is placed in the context of the rise of cultural majoritarianism and religious fundamentalism in India, and the coincidence of these ideologies with policies of economic liberalization. In its interpretation of works...

... the medial willingness to perceive or “figure” the air becomes a critical, everyday necessity. When Sloterdijk attributes the spread of “affective epidemics” to mass-media technologies, he draws attention to how airborne transmission is a symptom of breathing the same air, which, by affecting and altering...

... . “ Repräsentation und Rhetorik: Wider das Apriori der neuen Medialität” (“Representation and Rhetoric: Against the A Priori of New Mediality”) . In Schnittstelle Medien und Kulturwissenschaften (Interface Media and Cultural Studies) , edited by Stanitzek Georg Vosskamp Wilhelm , 77 – 84 . Cologne...

... does not exist in a vacuum. FK: Indeed. Take, for example, E. T. A. Hoffmann's The Golden Pot . A specific medial constellation is essential to the text. The world keeps overlooking how well behaved I was: Discourse Networks contains two exemplary interpretations. I think I interpreted...

... of planetary design. As the disarticulate site of its own spontaneous production, the planet presents itself as the indifferent host of our extinction. Chatonsky perspicaciously aligns the cause of “whatever-being” with the activity of the planet itself, drawing attention to the medial and technical conditions...

....” For those of us living through the current postelectronic phase of globalization, however, the only traditional quality of space that would seem to remain existent is conductivity, or the combination of conductivity, connectivity, and mediality. The space of distance, however, of meaningful separation...

... power from Europe and the Atlantic to the Pacific Rim arcing from Silicon Valley across to Japan and China. The essay attempts to explain this post-European geo-medial shift by telling the story of the growing intimacy between hardware and computation, inscription surfaces and binary codes. Passing...

... their indifference, individuals nowadays no longer realize that their “first” nature was initially second nature. In medial performance, memory of this “first” nature is absorbed in the actual awareness triggered by the second. “In comfort one does not ask where it comes from when it has become a habit” (SIII: 403...

... messages and other tele-technological data. This ring embraces the planet, and its clutch renders it a globe. The ring is simultaneously monological broadcast, medial conduit, and space debris: humanity's most enduring invention and intervention (Paglen 2013 ; Bishop 2018 ). The lateral moves afforded...

... given rise to uncertain medial futures in which the capacity to disentangle from harmful bacteria is foreclosed. Parasites such as hookworms are more complex: in certain tropical and subtropical contexts they remain pathological, while their widespread extirpation from North America and Europe has been...

... the world's—best policeman. What sparked Enzensberger's horror elicits Kittler's praise. The greatness of Herold is that he took full measure of the new medial conditions. He beat the terrorists because he understood what it means to be a bit too human in a digital world. Take Kittler's prime example...

... as their intervention remains a pure mediality, a means without end ( Agamben 2000 ). Profanation, in other words, has political purposiveness (that of cultural transformation) but no fixed purpose, as purposiveness permeates purpose with permanent dislocation. In the programmatic section of his text, “In Praise...

...— these will be your arts—impose the habit of peace, spare the vanquished and war down the proud.] Only in one respect did Aeneas himself have to submit, namely, in a linguistic-medial one. You may remember that one of Odysseus's or Circe's wild sons was named Latinos by Hesiod. The region of Latinum and the dialect...

.... More precisely, they address how technological innovations, animal bodies, and human emotions are assembled, bred, and programmed in an ongoing spiral of material, medial, and psychic mobilization. Kittler and war. There were times, especially in the wild eighties, when some wondered whether he...

... that jump species into the next medial form? By exploring the substantive force exerted by technical formations across time, chronologies might be productively reorganized, connecting “the factory floor, the slave ship’s manifest, the spread sheet, the stock exchange” ( Beller 2018 : 21). Such connections...

... and converts it into a new, environmental image of thought that will be more than a mere reflex of some kind of a priori of environmentality, be it technological-medial, capital, or whatever. 13 In what follows, I describe, at least in basic outline, the Power-Form, the World-Form, the Capital-Form...

... not be possible in the absence of the digital technologies that gave rise to networked internet platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, comment threads, and so forth. QAnon itself, in fact, would not be possible as a social media phenomenon without digital mediality and networked audiences. These same technologies...