..., especially in the work of Jean Epstein and Béla BalÁzs. Screens, beginning with cinema, increasingly interrupt yet mime face-to-face contact. This condition is construed as a loss, similar to that of Babel and its universal language: a loss of the fantasized immediacy, transparency, and presence of face...

... for the psychological state of immediacy that he recognized as a mark of modernity. While Wölfflin believed that such technologies as photography and film exacerbated this condition, he ultimately resorted to them as he developed pedagogical techniques that remain central to the discipline of art history. Baroque out...

... American contexts. This article analyzes how the letter writers' uses of Nietzsche resulted from the friction between the transnational traffic of his philosophy and their daily needs, the image and reality of his remoteness from their own time and place, and the immediacy of their lived experiences...

... the technical conditions of radio trans- mission, and the second, the complex contradictions between radio’s enhanced immediacy and presence, on the one hand, and its reproduction and reification, on the other. The first set of observations includes extended discussions of music’s various modes...

... to break free of idealism to the critique of the hidden media- tion in Husserl’s false notions of immediacy, was motivated by an attempt to expose the operation of the dialectic within the idealist, bourgeois philosophy of consciousness. While remaining a philosophy of immanence, phenomenol- ogy, one...

... debate on the transformation of time in the digital era and the question of whether our “cul- ture of immediacy”8 is characterized by a fundamental devaluation of the past in favor of a present that has swallowed up both past and future horizons of orientation. Arguably, the fear about the loss...

... not. This paradox of immediacy and distance inheres in the ontology of storytelling. With the opening words of his essay “The Storyteller,” Benjamin signals this nuanced definition of storytelling’s estranging effect: “Familiar though his name may be to us, the storyteller in his living immediacy is by no means...

.... In the digital age the symptoms of speed manifest themselves with a ubiquity, force, inevitably, and immediacy unprec- edented, indeed unimagined, in the earlier part of the twentieth century, and allied by some with postmodernity.28 But Tomlinson also sketches a second, 25. Paul Virilio, Speed...

...—and all literary events—gain their ultimate mean- ing in relation to the person of Christ. Benjamin focuses his frustration on “the spurious immediacy” with which Haecker suggests unmediated access, through the indwelling of “pure spirit,” to certain knowledge of God’s work- ings in the world (PT...

... expression is tolerated objectively, precisely because the way out of its obliqueness and inflection must pass through a series of mediations if it is to arrive at something like the mediated immediacy of suffering. The materialist “ban on images” resurrecting, in the same breath, unimaginable flesh...

... as the appearance of natural beauty in the eighteenth century was a historical development itself, just so has this moment passed, making natural beauty impossible to be positively retrieved now. Instead, recourse to the immediacy of natural beauty in actual nature turns into its opposite: Coined in opposition...

... break through the semblance of immediacy of reality. Through these techniques films can make the spectator conscious that another reality is still possible. Instead of pursuing autonomy, Adorno writes, film should “discard its artlike qualities.” If it succeeds, film would “[remain] art in its rebellion...

... a tributary of Husserl’s, how- ever, in the short-circuited conclusion that imputes the authentic immediacy to things, and thus turns the authentic into a special domain” (JA, 125; trans. modified). As a result, Heidegger supports valorizing identity over noniden- tity, the totality over the particular...

... that Benjamin is not dismissive of nearness as such. It is rather the mindless conformism or reactivity of what is all too close to one’s circumstances or the immediacy of events that is the problem. “The less a man is imprisoned in the bonds of fate, the less he is determined by what lies nearest at hand...

... for this “something outside” second nature, because philosophy remains in its social thrall. Critical theory should not have a name for it, because to name it would be to fall into a false immediacy and reify it once more. So, as always, as a concept, it must be derived from immi- nent critique...

... but the mode of encounter with the inscriptions that is to be revivified. There is no clear-cut distinction between the immediacy of genera- tional transmission and the mediated nature of cultural memory when it comes to thinking about how we relate to the past through the built environment...

... account of itself is necessarily the less reflected one: “Spontaneity and immediacy function here as synonyms for authenticity; they are the counterpart to frictionless sharing” ( FS , 162). This is, incidentally, as far as I engage with the concept of authenticity, which, contrary to the authors...

.... In other words, the unity of the world is an act of overcoming the immediacy of sense impressions that conceive of the world as discontinuous; this overcom- ing is made possible by ether’s omnipotent presence. As his engagement with ether suggests, Kantian aesthetics were highly important...

... particular to the modern situation of the arts: since the arts have lost their sensuous immediacy, the critic shoulders the responsibility of mediating between the work and the public. Referencing thermodynamic law, Worringer follows the end-of-art the- sis with the striking assurance that the end...

... themselves!” At stake here is the “concreteness” hidden in experience, and the immediacy through which we sense it. Yet this novelty of the book itself is coated in the polite and very classical rhetoric of an account of certain recent developments in philosophy, indicating a conciliatory tone...