Technè/Technology: Researching Cinema and Media Technologies, their Development, Use and Impact

Technè/Technology is a critical volume on the theories, philosophies, and debates on technology and their productivity for the fi elds of film and media studies. Contents Editorial Acknowledgments Introduction: Researching Cinema and Media Technologies PART I Philosophy of Technology: Reassessing Key Questions The Philosophy of Technology in the Frame of Film Theory: Walter Benjamin’s Contribution Toward an Archaeology of the Cinema/ Technology Relation: From Mechanization to “Digital Cinema” Technē and Poiēsis: On Heidegger and Film Theory Stiegler’s Post-Phenomenological Account of Mediated Experience What Are Media? PART II Cinema and Media Technologies: Hardware, Software, Wetware The “History of Vision”-Debate Revisited Will the 3D Revolution Happen? A Brief Perspective on the Long History of Stereoscopy (with special thanks to Eisenstein and Bazin) Television’s Many Technologies: Domesticity, Governmentality, Genealogy Postmodern Hi-fi vs. Post-Cool Lo-fi: An Epistemological War PART III Cinema and Media Technologies: A Historical Context Marey’s Gun: Apparatuses of Capture and the Operational Image Re-editing as Psychotechnique: Montage and Mediality in Early Soviet Cinema Technophobia and Italian Film Theory in the Interwar Period Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du Cinéma: Cogito Ergo Video Performativity/Expressivity: The Mobile Micro Screen and Its Subject PART IV Discussions: Revisiting the Past Rethinking the Materiality of Technical Media: Friedrich Kittler, Enfant Terrible with a Rejuvenating Effect on Parental Discipline – A Dialogue Revisiting Christian Metz’s “Apparatus Theory” – A Dialogue PART V Envisioning the Future The Future History of a Vanishing Medium Experimental Media Archaeology: A Plea for New Directions Notes General Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index of Names Index of Film Titles Index of Subject This fourth title in the series The Key Debates sets out where the term techne comes from, how it unleashed a revolution in thought and how the concept in the midst of the current digital revolution, once again, is influencing the study of film. In addition, the authors - among them André Gaudreault, Geoffrey Wintrop-Young, Martin Lefevbre, Dominique Chateau, Nanna Verhoeff, Andreas Fickers and Ian Christie - investigate how technologies have affected the major debates about film, how they affected film theory and some of its key concepts. This is one of the rare books to assess the comprehensive history of the philosophies of technology and their impact on film and media theory in greater detail Techne;/Technology offers a penetrating, close look at theorigins of the term techne;, which unleashed a revolutionin cinema and media studies when it was first introduced and whichcontinues to influence the study of film as the digital revolutionrolls along. The contributors investigate the effects oftechnologies on major film debates and, moreover, how technologieshave affected film theory and its key concepts