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After the Digital Divide? - German Aesthetic Theory in the Age of New Media (Hardcover): Lutz Koepnick, Erin McGlothlin After the Digital Divide? - German Aesthetic Theory in the Age of New Media (Hardcover)
Lutz Koepnick, Erin McGlothlin; Contributions by Boris Groys, Carsten Strathausen, Diedrich Diederichsen, …
R1,842 Discovery Miles 18 420 Out of stock

New essays providing innovative ways of understanding the altered position of media in Germany and beyond. The term "new media" is a current buzzword among scholars and in the media industry, referring to the ever-multiplying digitized modes of film/image and sound production and distribution. Yet how new, in fact, are these new media,and how does their rise affect the role of older media? What new theories allow us to examine our culture of ubiquitous electronic screens and networked pleasures? Is a completely new set of perspectives, concepts, and paradigmsrequired, or are older modes of discussion about the relationship between technology and art still adequate? This book reconsiders the seminal work of German media theorists such as Adorno, Benjamin, and Kracauer in order to explore today's rapidly changing mediascape, questioning the naive progressivism that informs much of today's discourse about media technologies. The contributions, by internationally-recognized critics from a variety of academic fields, encourage a view of the history of media as structured by difference, complexity, and multiplicity. Together, they offer intriguing ways of understanding the changed position of media in today's Germany and beyond. Contributors: Nora M. Alter, Michel Chaouli, Diedrich Diederichsen, Sabine Eckmann, Margit Grieb, Boris Groys, Juliet Koss, Richard Langston, Lev Manovich, Todd Presner, Juliane Rebentisch, Carsten Strathausen. Lutz Koepnick is Professor of German, Film and Media Studies, and Erin McGlothlin is Associate Professor of German and Jewish Studies, both at Washington University in St. Louis.

The Islands of Benoit Mandelbrot - Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking (Paperback): Nina Samuel The Islands of Benoit Mandelbrot - Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking (Paperback)
Nina Samuel; Contributions by Jan von Brevern, Matthias Bruhn, Juliet Koss, Margarete Pratschke
R787 Discovery Miles 7 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Over the past few decades, the "pictorial turn" in the natural sciences, prompted by the computer's capacity to produce visual representations, has generated considerable theoretical interest. Poised between their materiality and the abstract level they are meant to convey, scientific images are always intersections of form and meaning. Benoit Mandelbrot (1924-2010), one of the best-known producers of digital images in scientific and industrial research, was particularly curious about the ways in which the materiality of scientific representation was able to influence the development of the ideas and abstractions the images embodied. Using images and objects found in Mandelbrot's office, this book questions the relationship between the visual and scientific reasoning in fractal geometry and chaos theory, among the most popular fields to use digital scientific imagery in the past century. These unpublished materials offer new connections between the material world and that of mathematical ideas. Work by Adrien Douady and Otto Roessler provides historical depth to the analysis. Distributed for the Bard Graduate Center, NY Exhibition Schedule: Bard Graduate Center(09/20/12-01/27/13)

Modernism after Wagner (Paperback): Juliet Koss Modernism after Wagner (Paperback)
Juliet Koss
R825 R782 Discovery Miles 7 820 Save R43 (5%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

References to the "Gesamtkunstwerk," a "total work of art," abound in discussions of modern art and culture, often describing a seamless melding of a variety of art forms that overwhelm the emotions, impede critical thought, and mold a group of individuals into a powerless mass. Famously set forth by the composer Richard Wagner in 1849, the term has been applied to such disparate settings as the cinema palaces of Berlin in the 1920s and Andy Warhol's Factory scene in New York in the 1960s.

In "Modernism after Wagner," Juliet Koss explores the history and legacy of Wagner's concept, laying out its genealogy and the political, aesthetic, and cultural context from which it emerged, and tracing its development and reception through the 1930s. Beginning with Wagner's initial articulation of the "Gesamtkunstwerk" in the wake of the 1848-49 revolution, Koss addresses a series of linked episodes in German aesthetic theory and artistic practice that include the composer's efforts to build a theater to house his music dramas, culminating in the construction of the festival theater at Bayreuth in 1876; German aesthetic theory and criticism in the visual arts, theater, film, and radio from the 1870s to the 1920s; the founding of the Darmstadt Artists' Colony in 1901 and that of the Munich Artists' Theater in 1908; performances and parties at the Bauhaus in the 1920s and 1930s; and the legacy of the "Gesamtkunstwerk" under National Socialism. Attending to Wagner's absorption into Fascist aesthetics, Koss foregrounds the revolutionary origins of the "Gesamtkunstwerk" and its emancipatory potential.

Rigorously researched and highly accessible, "Modernism after Wagner" places the "Gesamtkunstwerk" at the heart of modern art and culture.

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