Media Matter The Materiality of Media, Matter as Medium

Bernd Herzogenrath, "Media Matter: The Materiality of Media, Matter as Medium"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1501320106, 1628923830 | 328 pages | PDF | 2.6 MB
Launching Bloomsbury’s Thinking Media series, Media Matter introduces readers to the nascent field of media-philosophy. Contributors urge readers to re-adjust their ideas of Media Studies, by extending the understanding of "medium" to include a concept of materiality that also includes "non-human" transmitters (elements such as water, earth, fire, air) and also by understanding media not only in the context of cultural or discursive systems or apparatuses, relays, transistors, hardware or "discourse networks," but more inclusively, in terms of a "media ecology."