... the transmission of mind through the channels of linguistic form, meter, and rhyme. Neither the ghost nor the poem exists except in or as its mediations, yet through these mediations, both the ghost and the poem become present and are communicated into the world. While contemporary media theory has identified...

..., Cybernetic Group , 110–30. Copyright © 2021 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2021 computation artificial intelligence critical theory media theory subjectivity In early January 1956 Herbert Simon opened his lecture at Carnegie Tech’s Graduate School of Industrial Administration with a shocking...

... studies, at the Humboldt University in Berlin and permanent visiting professor at Princeton University. He is the author of over a hundred articles and book chapters on German literature, liter- ary and media theory, and the history of knowledge and political thought. His books...

.... Katherine . Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2017 . Hui Yuk . Recursivity and Contingency . Lanham, MD : Rowman and Littlefield , 2019 . Kittler Friedrich . “ Towards an Ontology of Media .” Theory, Culture and Society...

...,” turns to classical Chinese ghost poetry—poems literally authored by ghosts—to reflect on the paranormative dimensions of lyric poetry as such. Building on and departing from contemporary media theory, Chen’s account of ghost poetry as an analog “necrotechnology” through which the dead both speak...

... him to produce spectacular readings of how disciplines such as linguistics, media theory, and literature manipulate the voice to their own ends; Dolar’s work, in other words, is exactly what’s necessary in order to demonstrate the spectacular deluding force of Nancy’s aesthetico-logical inves...

... synthetic, insofar as its basis lies not in extensive archival research, but rather in recent media studies, political sci- ence, and aesthetic theory. Feedback does propose some unex- pected, intriguing alliances between seemingly disparate theorists — Krauss, McLuhan...

... on collective af- fect, sentimentality, fantasies of citizenship, and feminist and queer theory. In honor of her new book, Cruel Optimism, I asked her to help us make sense of a number of artifacts from the contemporary archive, all of which attempt to mark, in some way, the end of an era—historical...

... of the pre-big- data past.2 With some notable exceptions, writing on high- tech media like video games has shied away from the controversial territory of sexuality. Meanwhile, queer theory, with some of its own notable exceptions, has taken pains to side- step the “lower” arts and the hubbub...

... , 190–91), Matala de Mazza supplies a partial prehistory of today’s new media platforms. 19 In Notes toward a Performative Theory of Assembly Judith Butler remarks on the important function such platforms have for the people claiming the right to appear in the public sphere. According to Butler...

...; rather, she examines how Santería redirects and amplifies competing hierarchies of power and influence. Electric Santería revises theories of transnational religion that assume that any religion capable of transnational mobility is innately transcendental. For example, Joel Robbins, an important...

...Stuart J. Murray NETWORK DIGITAL INFORMATION HUMACHINES: A CONVERSATION WITH MARK POSTER Stuart J. Murray Stuart-J. Murray— Perhaps I can start by asking you a general ques- tion about subjectivity as this pertains to electronic media. My abil- ity to communicate more...

... of inertia that defines it, do not exhaust themselves in the history of physics. Their place in the canon of scientific education and physi- cal theory-formation, which extends well beyond the purview of their merely theoretical value, attests to this. The exemplary role...

...- ing, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.”1 For a few weeks Hawking enjoyed a surge of attention from news media, and in the years since then he has troubled the popular press two or three more times with simi- lar climacterics over our...

... on the fi gure of the singing doll in opera, popular music, and literature. His research combines the study of non-canonical literatures (such as decadence and science fi ction) with an interest in the history and theory of media and science, to show how media transforma- tions are driven by fantasies...

... of this review essay, Experimental Games , marks an accomplished synthesis of his interdisciplinary practice that marries the critical and creative. Indeed, pitched at the “intersection of media aesthetics on the one hand and social, political, and economic theory on the other” ( EG , xi), Experimental Games...

... (Routledge, 1990); Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Routledge, 1993); The Psychic Life of Power: Theories of Subjection (Stanford Univer- sity Press, 1997); Excitable Speech (Routledge, 1997), as well as numerous articles and contributions on philosophy...

...Mara Mills Copyright © 2012 Qui Parle 2012 Media and Prosthesis1 The Vocoder, the Artifi cial Larynx, and the History of Signal Processing mara mills Vocal Codes American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) com- memorated the twenty- fi fth anniversary of the fi rst...

... effectively mobilized by the current Administration, is first and foremost tied to the media branch of what Guy Debord as early as the 1960s termed la societe du spectacle, the society of the spectacle, is rather uncontroversial. Indeed, to many vigilant observers both in the U.S. and abroad...

... role in giving us a “theory of modernism from the inside,” a “cultural analysis” that extends to the “social and political textures of the historical world,” encompassing, in Huyssen’s words, “capital and culture, high and low; verbal and visual media; architecture...