Bernard Stiegler

Thomas Pringle

Gertrud Koch

On the social consequences of machines Automation, animation, and ecosystems are terms of central media-philosophical concern in today’s society of humans and machines. This volume describes the social consequences of machines as a mediating concept for the animation of life and automation of technology. Bernard Stiegler’s automatic society illustrates how digital media networks establish a new proletariat of knowledge workers. Gertrud Koch offers the animation of the technical to account for the pathological relations that arise between people and their devices. And Thomas Pringle synthesizes how automation and animation explain the history of intellectual exchanges that led to the hybrid concept of the ecosystem, a term that blends computer and natural science. All three contributions analyse how categories of life and technology become mixed in governmental policies, economic exploitation and pathologies of everyday life thereby both curiously and critically advancing the term that underlies those new developments: ‘machine.’

Machine

Nicolas Apostolopoulos

Michele Barricelli

Due to the generation shift, the central challenge has become to preserve the memories of the survivors of National Socialist persecution and to anchor these within 21st century cultural memory. In this transition phase, which includes rapid technical developments within information and communications technology, high expectations are being made of the collections of survivors audio and video interviews. This publication reflects the interdisciplinary debates currently taking place on the various digital techniques of preserving eyewitness interviews. The focus is how the changes in media technology are affecting the various fields of work, which include storage/archiving, education as well as the reception of the interviews.

Digital Testimony Collections about Nazi Persecution: History, Education and Media

Preserving Survivors Memories

Elfriede Jelinek

Michael Hagner

Clemens J. Setz

Ann Cotten

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

A book of texts and images that plays with history, stories and what it might mean to stop (cinematic) time: 100 individual frames from 100 works by 100 Austrian filmmakers since 1945, each described by 100 international writers and journalists from the fields of criticism, film theory, and science. 0Following along a time code structured by the happenstance of the particular image selection, a topography of Austrian cinema unfolds across the decades, shifting between feature film, experimental work, and documentary.0Katharina Müller, cultural scientist, heads the Education, Research, and Publications Department at the Austrian Film Museum. She lectures on film and media studies and has written a monograph on Michael Haneke. She has recently been involved in artistic research projects studying ephemeral film. 0Claus Philipp, journalist and dramaturge, has produced a number of publications including books on Alexander Kluge, Christoph Schlingensief, and Ulrich Seidl. His most recent work has been as dramaturge and artistic collaborator on the film and performance project The Children of the Dead (2017 2019, directed by Nature Theater of Oklahoma).

Picturing Austrian Cinema. History and Tales of Austrian Cinema Since 1945 in 100 Moving Pictures

Väter + Töchter

On the social consequences of machines Automation, animation, and ecosystems are terms of central media-philosophical concern in today's society of humans and machines. This volume describes the social consequences of machines as a mediating concept for the animation of life and automation of technology. Bernard Stiegler's automatic society illustrates how digital media networks establish a new proletariat of knowledge workers. Gertrud Koch offers the animation of the technical to account for the pathological relations that arise between people and their devices. And Thomas Pringle synthesizes how automation and animation explain the history of intellectual exchanges that led to the hybrid concept of the ecosystem, a term that blends computer and natural science. All three contributions analyse how categories of life and technology become mixed in governmental policies, economic exploitation and pathologies of everyday life thereby both curiously and critically advancing the term that underlies those new developments: 'machine.'

Paula Diehl

der Körper als Medium

Inszenierungen der Politik

Volker Pantenburg

From moving images on the Internet to giant IMAX displays: The number of screens in the public and private sphere has increased significantly during the last two decades. While this is often taken to indicate the "death of cinema," this volume attempts to reconsider the limits and specifics of film and the traditional movie theater. It analyzes notions of spectatorship, the relationship between cinema and the "uncinematic," the contested place of installation art in the history of experimental cinema, and the characteristics of the high definition image. Further contributions discuss the ways in which cinema interacts with other arts and media such as theater and television. Contributors include Raymond Bellour, Victor Burgin, Vinzenz Hediger, Tom Gunning, Ute Holl, Ekkehard Knörer, Thomas Morsch, Jonathan Rosenbaum and the editors.

Mapping the Borders of Cinema

Screen Dynamics

Gertrud Koch

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