...Paul J. D’Ambrosio; Hans-Georg Moeller Abstract Roberto Simanowski’s work reflects on how the internet transforms understandings of ourselves, others, and the world—or our “identity.” Three concepts inform his analysis: instant selves, the idea that algorithms automatically create narratives...

... box of the cinema, the late-night television screen, or the internet. Copyright © 2020 by New German Critique, Inc. 2020 Alexander Kluge installation art media aesthetics montage transmediality Although Alexander Kluge is best known in Germany as a filmmaker, author, and public...

... theory. © 2015 by New German Critique, Inc. 2015 Internet Jürgen Habermas media theory media transformation public sphere Virtual Ignorance: The Blind Spot in German Public Sphere Theory Lukas Kaelin The public sphere stands...

... notions on photography, and Jean-Luc Nancy’s concept of a “groundless community”—is too broad and perhaps a bit too ambitious. 2 What I did not anticipate is that my perspective would be considered too “narrow in taking into account only certain direct and more readily apparent effects of the internet...

... available on the internet alongside cast lists, synopses, and user responses. Because (amateur) commentaries about film can now be accessed online, film criticism is no longer dependent on the “newspaper of yesterday.” Films and criticism are available virtually at any time, but synopses are identical...

... have always tended to read and engage with criticism (alongside some degree of word of mouth). 27 In the context of this long tradition, the snapshot provided in my 2018 surveys strongly suggests that—even in the age of the digital, the internet, online streaming, review aggregators, media...

... the nature of what these spaces communicate. What we need to do, for example, by engaging with the tradition of critical theory as reconstructed by Miriam, is to develop positions that neither fall into a celebration of the free and liberating Internet nor succumb Gertrud...

... existence can only be imagined rather than known is the uncontrolled and uncoordinated realm of the Internet. Like other utopian new technology gurus inspired by biological theories of emergent behavior, such as bird fl ocks and the collective “memory” of beehives, Bröckers sees the underlying...

...- sylvania Press, 2004). The staggering amount of new historical sources (both texts and films) made available by the Internet calls for renewed reflection on the analytic use of historical information. 3. Kracauer wrote From Caligari to Hitler in a state of traumatic shock at the end of World War II...

..., and on the other, facing the image, a discussion of the work. On the innermost flap, a review that appeared at the time of the film’s release or interview with the director is reprinted. The film critics’ words have staying power: their reviews and interviews, only available for a fleck of time in the pre-internet...

... which the “art forms of video, digital, and internet art, each dedicated to a specific medium, are ‘reunited,’ inter- and transmedially”—seems more appropriate ( “Video—the Non-specific Medium,” 32, 34, 35 ). 2. Probably the most important milestones in this regard are the volumes of the new...

... source (or apparatus) generates information. Thus Shannon formu- 23. Perhaps the equivalent today would be the Internet-ready cell phone (i.e., it is both public and private). Sjoukje van der Meulen 191 lates a quantitative concept of information, for which...

... Sabine . “ Manufacturing Discontent: John Heartfield’s Mass Medium .” New German Critique , no. 107 ( 2009 ): 53 – 88 . Lovink Geert . “ Essay on Speculative Media Theory (1996) .” In Dark Fiber: Tracking Critical Internet Culture , 22 – 29 . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press , 2002...

...-night television screen, or the internet.” Sabine Haenni opens up entirely new perspectives on Kluge’s aesthetic relationship to the historical avant-garde, urban capitalist modernity, and the cinematic trajectory of time-lapse technique over time through rich analysis of one short film from the late...

... or striking physical differences. We do know that the visiting aunts came to Germany from another country, but at no point do we learn where they came from. Readers might know or learn from the internet that Saya is used as a girl’s name in Arabic, and one might assume that the aunts wear headscarves. How...

....” Artforum , April , 194 – 97 , 252–53 . Lotringer Sylvère Cohen Sande . 2001 . French Theory in America . New York : Routledge . Lovink Geert . 2008 . “Whereabouts of German Media Theory.” In Zero Comment: Blogging and Critical Internet Culture , 83 – 98 . New York...

... of the foreign branch of the Russian secret police, the infamous Okhrana, in Paris. The revelation spread like wildfi re. Articles appeared in all major newspapers and on the Internet. The Saint Petersburg historian’s “discovery” could justifi - ably be considered a “sensation,” heralded the Neue Zürcher...

... to Jewish victims by means of a simile and other strategies of tentative identification. Petrowskaja further portrays various memory media—including analog media such as records and photographs and digital media such as internet platforms and search algorithms—as a wellspring of similarity. 17...

..., but as an approximation of what might have happened, as captured in the title of the book Maybe Esther . 10 The appropriative moves the narrator makes in relation to her Jewish past as she discovers it are always self-reflexively noticed and then retracted. Her Jewish identity, which she calls “my Internet Jewishness...

... shrunk in daily papers, and positions have evaporated. More and more film reviews simply perform a service function and, in that way, support film business rather than further reflection about cinema. With the coming of the internet, revenue for advertising has collapsed. Lebert, an investigative...