[...After the Media] : News From the Slow-Fading Twentieth Century

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. Thinking media after the media The media are now redundant. In an overview of developments spanning the last 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 Vademecum against psychopathia medialis in the form of a manifesto, the book advocates for a distinction to be made between online existence and offline being. Cover 1 Title Page 3 Copyright 4 Table of Contents 5 Preface 7 Introduction [The Argument] The Media Have Become Superfluous 14 1. Critique of the Strategic Generalization the Media, Their Provenance and Aims: An Unabashed tour d'horizon 28 2. In Praise of What Is Not Systemic about the Arts: For a cultura experimentalis 130 3. Thinking Media Explicitly and Implicitly — and the Imitation of a Perspective: For an Exact Philology of Precise Things. 178 4. Be Offline and Exist Online 246 Vademecum for the Prevention of psychopathia medialis [Manifesto] 260 Select Bibliography of Literature Used and Literature Cited 269 [... After the Media]: News from the Slow-Fading Twentieth Century,Siegfried Zielinski,Gloria Custance,Media Philosophy,History of Philosophy,Jason Wagner Cover Design