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Book SynopsisTraffic: Media as Infrastructures and Cultural Practices presents texts by international media and cultural scholars that address the relationship between symbolic and infrastructural dimensions of media, analysing traffic in terms of media ecology, as epistemological principle, and as (trans-)formative power. Contributors are: Menahem Blondheim, Grant David Bollmer, Richard Cavell, Wolf-Dieter Ernst, Norm Friesen, Elihu Katz, Peter Krapp, Martina Leeker, Jana Mangold, John Durham Peters, Gabriele Schabacher, Michael Steppat, Wolfgang Sützl, Hartmut Winkler
Table of ContentsMarion Näser-Lather and Christoph Neubert: Traffic – Media as Infrastructures and Cultural Practices: Introduction Section 1: Theorizing Traffic John Durham Peters: Infrastructuralism: Media as Traffic Between Nature and Culture Gabriele Schabacher: Traffic as ‘Dirt Experience’: Harold Innis’s Tracing of Media Jana Mangold: Traffic of Metaphor: Transport and Media at the Beginning of Media Theory Hartmut Winkler: Traces: Does Traffic Retroact on the Media Infrastructure? Section 2: Traffic of Concepts Grant David Bollmer: Technobiological Traffic: Networks, Bodies, and the Management of Vitality Norm Friesen: Dewey’s Cosmic Traffic: Politics and Pedagogy as Communication Richard Cavell: McLuhan, Turing, and the Question of Determinism Martina Leeker and Michael Steppat: Data Traffic in Theater and Engineering: Between Technical Conditions and Illusions Section 3: Time, Space, and Power Menahem Blondheim and Elihu Katz: Communications in an Ancient Empire: An Innisian Reading of the Book of Esther Peter Krapp: Nomads of the Technical Sublime Wolfgang Suetzl: Street Protests, Electronic Disturbance, Smart Mobs: Dislocations of Resistance Wolf-Dieter Ernst: Performing Traffic: On Mobile Aesthetics in Contemporary Theater and Travel
