Technics : media in the digital age / edited by Nicholas Baer; Annie van den Oever

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Editorial -- Acknowledgments -- PART I Questions Concerning Technics -- 1. Technics: An Introduction -- 2. Ten Statements on Technics -- PART II Philosophies of Technology -- 3. Machine Aesthetics: Animation through Technology, Animation of Technology -- 4. "New Stars Were Rising in the Sky" : On Benjamin's Concept of Cosmic Experience and Technology around 1930 -- 5. Instructions for Use : Thinking Body, Machine, and Technicity with Simondon -- 6. Knowing, Studying, Writing : A Conversation on History, Practice, and Other Doings with Technics -- PART III Theories of Media -- 7. Protective Media -- Francesco Casetti -- 8. Carried Away: The Carrier Bag Theory of Media -- 9. Beyond Access: Transforming Ableist Techno-Worlds -- PART IV Archaeologies of Media -- 10. Coming to Terms with the "Smart" Phone -- 11. The Afterlife of an Optical Device, or Making the Lantern Kosher -- PART V Filmic Techniques -- 12. Theories of the Frame and Framing in Cinema: A Genealogy -- 13. Split Screens : A Discussion with Catherine Grant, Malte Hagener, and Katharina Loew -- 14. Specks of Time : Digital Editing and Verse Jumping in Everything Everywhere All at Once -- PART VI Digital Humanities -- 15. Streams, Portals, and Data Flows: Digital Infrastructures of Film Studies -- 16. Six Memos for the New Millennium : A Dialogue with Andreas Fickers on Epistemic Virtues in the Digital Humanities

Featuring 28 leading international media scholars, Technics rethinks technology for the contemporary digital era, with cutting-edge theoretical, historiographical, and methodological interventions. The volume's contributors explore the ideas of Walter Benjamin, Ursula Le Guin, Bernhard Siegert, Gilbert Simondon, and Sylvia Wynter in conjunction with urgent questions concerning algorithmic media, digital infrastructures, generative AI, and geoengineering. An expansive collection of writings on media technologies in the digital age, Technics is an essential resource for students and scholars of film and media studies, digital humanities, science and technology studies, and the philosophy of technology