...Friedrich Kittler; Geoffrey Winthrop-Young This essay traces the advances in time axis manipulation brought about by the media switches from symbolic mediation (alphabet) to analogue recording (phonography and cinematography) and digital processing (computers). Special emphasis...

... and automate human capabilities; to develop new human-machine composites; to shorten time and space intervals; and to eliminate gaps between symbol and event. It has contributed to an ideal of integrated control and panoptic oversight, where reality is seen as “manageable” through the manipulation of data...

... paradoxically claim something of the status of models. Modelization proves to be only a variant of serialization as marginal differences support personalization: “every object is a model, yet at the same time there are no more models” (Baudrillard 1996: 142). Nonetheless, cultural consumption moves from series...

..., that reconsider and, as it were, “bring up to speed” his reflections on the compression of space, the logarithmic acceleration of time in the age of electronic transmission, and their impact on democracy, the city, citizens, and the status of humans and the world in general. The world, Virilio declares in his...

... the affective condition , meaning the emotive backdrop that informs the ways individuals encounter the actors and agencies that look to manipulate affect to modify human behavior and practices. Our use of the term ecology therefore extends established definitions of obesogenic environments by accounting...

...Bart Simon; Darren Wershler This article considers Minecraft , one of the most widely played and popular video games of all time, with over 100 million copies sold. Minecraft is an open-ended strategy game about material logistics, governance, and world building. It is also about a nostalgic...

... camcorders, videotape, microphones, VCRs, and TVs. Together these constitute an apparatus of capture and playback that allowed Beane and other observers to see, hear, measure, and analyze more aspects of the game, from different angles, at various speeds, and as many times as desired. Such time-axis...

...Nicole Starosielski This article documents how thermal manipulation is critical to the transformation of the earth’s raw materials into media and to maintaining those materials as media. Through an examination of thermal practices, including mineral extraction, the use of air-conditioning in media...

... philosophical and ideological contexts, to confirm the reliability of what is visible, and to reflect objectively on the information received. 4 The culture of surveillance and manipulation also thrives on the impact of the “squared horizon” to shape individual behavior. Real time and image fusion...

... of an outsider’s perspective, whether British, Anglo-American, Catholic, Russo-American, or countercultural; and in one case (H.G. Wells) displaced in time, anticipating wars to come. 1 These are texts which ask us to address what the Cold War was in the first place: realpolitik or ideology? Fantasy or everyday...

... fertile a source of intellectual unrest than conceptual slippage. Take the German word Kultur . For a long time Kultur was not culture . The words related to each other like English gift to German Gift . The former indicates a present, the latter is the German word for “poison”—cognates derived...

... time, “a political term” ( Brand 1977 : 5). As an idea, it was intimately connected to the possibilities of zero gravity, itself a kind of figuration of the suspension of limits, in this case those imposed by weight, thus allowing what would otherwise be massively heavy objects to be manipulated...

...Tania Roy This paper examines the installation work of Vivan Sundaram, one of India's foremost contemporary artists, as an aesthetic response to the rapid political and cultural transformations that marked the 1990s. At this time, Sundaram turned definitively from an established body of figurative...

..., and Verticality . London : Hurst . Arıcan Arize . 2020 . “ Behind the Scaffolding: Manipulations of Time, Delays, and Power in Tarlabaşı, Istanbul .” City and Society 32 , no. 3 : 482 – 507 . Barua Maan . 2021 . “ Infrastructure and Non-human Life: A Wider Ontology .” Progress...

...Deborah Frizzell This article is an analysis of artist-activist Nancy Spero’s War Series paintings, 1966–70. The author analyzes her paintings from this crucial time period within the context of significant historical events that impacted her artistic development of themes, formal devices...