Overview

Media and human modes of existence are always already intertwined and interdependent. The notion of the anthropocene has further stimulated a new examination of ideas about human agency and responsibility. Various approaches all emphasize relational concepts and the situatedness and embodiment of human—and also non-human—existences and experiences. Their common interest has shifted from any so-called ‘human nature’ to the multitude of cultural, topographical, technical, historical, social, discursive, and media formats with which human existences are entangled. This volume brings together a range of thinkers from international backgrounds and puts these important reflections and ideas in the spotlight. More specifically, the volume explores the concept of ""anthropomedial entanglements."" It fosters an understanding of human bodies, experiences, and media as being immanently entangled and mutually constituting, prior to any possible distinction between them. The different contributions thus open up a dialogue between empirical case studies and media-historical research on the one hand and the conceptual work of media and cultural philosophies and aesthetics on the other hand.

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Author:   Christiane Voss (Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany) ,  Lorenz Engell (Professor of Media Philosophy at the Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany) ,  Tim Othold (Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic USA
ISBN:  

9781501375149

ISBN 10:   1501375148
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   21 September 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Anthropologies of Entanglements: An Introduction Christiane Voss, Lorenz Engell, Tim Othold (Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany) I. Milieus 1. Existing in Motion: Foundations for a Philosophical Media-Anthropology Christiane Voss (Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany) 2. Tangled Efforts and Middle-Voiced Verbs Jane Bennett (Johns Hopkins University, USA) 3. The Experience-Image and Collaborative Filmmaking – From Visual Anthropology to Media-Anthropological Practices Julia Bee (University of Siegen, Germany) 4. A Life in the Interstices: Micropolitics and Aesthetics in Everyday Life Christoph Carsten (Independent Scholar, Germany) II. Practice and Process 5. Prosthesis for Feeling: Intensifying Potentiality through Media Mark B.N. Hansen (Duke University, USA) 6. Chemæra Jason Pine (Independent Scholar, USA) 7. In Control of Algorithms: Video Analytics and Human-machine Relations at the Train Station Gabriele Schabacher (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany) 8. On the Anthropology of the mode double click Lorenz Engell (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany) 9. Neutral Time Philip Gries (Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany) III. Bodies in Media 10. Unfolding Bodies. Art and Ontology of the American Northwest Coast Bernhard Siegert (Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany) 11. Corporeal Literacy: Alphabetic Bodies and the Logic of the Cut Maaike Bleeker (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) 12.Torn, Crushed, Shredded. The Reconstruction of Wounded Bodies in World War I Johanna Seifert (FernUniversität, Germany) 13. Material Dialectics of the Hard Body Ivo Ritzer (University of Bayreuth, Germany) 14. She is Inseminating: On the Secret of Life in Claire Denis’s Science Fiction Film High Life (2018) Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany) Contributors Index

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Anthropologies of Entanglement develops a new and inspiring approach to understanding our contemporary condition of the Mediocene , in which the human and natural spheres are indissolubly intertwined with and permeated by media. Its key word, Anthropomediality, convincingly suggests to conceive the human existence as mediatic; the relation comes before the related. The 16 contributions by international authors from a broad variety of fields brilliantly discuss the entanglements that precede all forms of reification and anthropogenesis. * Christoph Menke, Professor, Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main, Germany *

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Christiane Voss is Professor of Philosophy of Audiovisual Media at the Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany. Important publications include Die Relevanz der Irrelevanz (2021), together with Lorenz Engell, Der Leihkörper (2013), and Narrative Emotions (2003). Lorenz Engell is Professor of Media Philosophy at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany, where he was the founding dean of the Faculty of Media from 1996-2000 and co-director of the International Research Center for Cultural Techniques and Media Philosophy (IKKM) from 2008-2020. Tim Othold is a research associate and coordinator at the DFG post-graduate program for ""Media Anthropology"" at the Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany. He has published on media philosophical approaches to digital culture, the internet of things, games, and the concept of remnants and remainders.

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