Variations on Media Thinking

Expanding on Siegfried Zielinski’s groundbreaking inquiry into “deep time” of the media, the essays in Variations on Media Thinking further the eminent media theorist’s unique method of expanded hermeneutics, which means for him interpreting technical artifacts as essential parts of our cultural lives. Covering such topics as the televisualized “Holocaust,” the ubiquity of medi...

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Expanding on Siegfried Zielinski’s groundbreaking inquiry into “deep time” of the media, the essays in Variations on Media Thinking further the eminent media theorist’s unique method of expanded hermeneutics, which means for him interpreting technical artifacts as essential parts of our cultural lives. Covering such topics as the televisualized “Holocaust,” the ubiquity of media today, the Internet, the genealogy of sound art, and history’s first hacker movement, these essays further diversify Zielinski’s insight into the hidden layers of media development, which he first articulated in his pioneering work Deep Time of the Media.

Including many previously untranslated and scarce essays, these “written time machines” open new lines of investigation for cultural scholars. From the automata of the Arabic-Islamic Renaissance (800–1200) to the largest and loudest techno-event ever, known as The Symphony of Sirens—which transformed Baku in 1922 into an immense music box of modern noise—Variations on Media Thinking covers Zielinski’s inquiries since 1975. Richly illustrated and full of provocation, brilliant insight, and fascinating research, this volume is perfect for students of media archaeology, philosophy, and technology, as well as any adventurous, rigorous thinkers engaged with culture and media.

Siegfried Zielinski is Michel Foucault Professor at The European Graduate School in Saas Fee and chair for Archaeology and Variantology of Art and Media at Berlin University of the Arts (i.r.). He is author of Deep Time of the Media: Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means, which has been translated into many languages, and [...After the Media]: News from...

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Siegfried Zielinski is Michel Foucault Professor at The European Graduate School in Saas Fee and chair for Archaeology and Variantology of Art and Media at Berlin University of the Arts (i.r.). He is author of Deep Time of the Media: Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means, which has been translated into many languages, and [...After the Media]: News from the Slow-Fading Twentieth Century (Univocal/Minnesota, 2013).

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Generators of Surprise: Diverse Media Thinking
I. Provocations
1. History as Entertainment and Provocation: The TV Series Holocaust in West Germany
2. Media Archaeology: Searching for Different Orders of Envisioning
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Generators of Surprise: Diverse Media Thinking
I. Provocations
1. History as Entertainment and Provocation: The TV Series Holocaust in West Germany
2. Media Archaeology: Searching for Different Orders of Envisioning
3. Seven Items on the Net
4. Toward a Dramaturgy of Differences
5. From Territories to Intervals: Some Preliminary Thoughts on the Economy of Time/the Time
6. On the Difficulty to Think Twofold in One with Nils Röller
7. The Art of Design: (Manifesto) On the State of Affairs and Their Agility
8. “Too Many Images!—We Have to React”: Theses toward an Apparatical
Prosthesis for Seeing—in the Context of Godard’s Histoire(s) du Cinéma
II. Particular Archaeologies
9. The Audiovisual Time Machine: Concluding Theses on the Cultural Technique of the Video Recorder
10. War and Media: Marginalia of a Genealogy, in Legends and Images
11. Theologi electrici: A Few Passages
12. Historic Modes of the Audiovisual Apparatus
13. “TO ALL!” The Struggle of the German Workers Radio Movement 1918–1933
14. Urban Music Box, Urban Hearing: Avraamov’s Symphony of Sirens in Baku and Moscow 1922/23—A Media-Archaeological Miniature
15. How One Sees
16. Lüology, Techno-Souls, Artificial Paradises: Fragments of an An-Archaeology of Sound Arts 17. Designing and Revealing: Some Aspects of a Genealogy of Projection
18. Allah’s Automata: Where Ancient Oriental Learning Intersects with Early Modern Europe; A Media-Archaeological Miniature by Way of Introduction
Publication History
Index
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