The media are now redundant. In an overview of developments spanning the past seventy years, Siegfried Zielinski's [ . . . After the Media] discusses how the means of technology-based communication assumed a systemic character and how theory, art, and criticism were operative in this process. Media-explicit thinking is contrasted with media-implicit thought. Points of contact with an arts perspective include a reinterpretation of the artist Nam June Paik and an introduction to the work of Jake and Dinos Chapman. The essay ends with two appeals. In an outline of a precise philology of exact things, Zielinski suggests possibilities of how things could proceed after the media. With a vade mecum against psychopathia medialis in the form of a manifesto, the book advocates for a distinction to be made between online existence and offline being.

About the Author

Siegfried Zielinski is professor of media theory at the University of Arts (UdK) Berlin as well as Michel Foucault Professor of Media Archaeology and Techno-Culture at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. He is also director of the Vilem Flusser Archive at the Universitat der Kunste in Berlin.

Book Information
ISBN 9781937561161
Author Siegfried Zielinski
Format Paperback
Page Count 275
Imprint Univocal Publishing LLC
Publisher Univocal Publishing LLC
Dimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 38mm