the following might be of interest. comments are welcome, -a
Andreas Broeckmann: "Postmedia" Discourses. A Working Paper. (2013)
Abstract
The notion of "postmedia" has been the subject of debate for several
decades. This text tries to highlight the main trends of those debates.
My first hypothesis is that there are three different conceptions of
"postmedia" which need to be looked at separately and which have to be
understood as distinct: the notion of "post-mass media" (as
conceptualised by Félix Guattari, Howard Slater, a.o.), the notion of
the "post-medium condition" of contemporary art (Rosalind Krauss,
Nicolas Bourriaud, a.o.), and the notion of the "digital as post-media"
(Peter Weibel, Lev Manovich, Domenico Quaranta, a.o.). These three
discourses are introduced, not with the aim of offering full, let alone
critical analyses, but in order to facilitate a more differentiated
approach to the notion of "postmedia". My second hypothesis is that
there are significant interferences between the different conceptions of
"postmedia" and that interesting insights can be gained from a
comparative reading of the three discourses. At the end, I hint at some
of these interferences in order to suggest epistemological vicinities
and distinctions between the three concepts, and in order to mark
potential starting points for a discussion between the three rather
separate discourse communities.
Read on:
http://www.mikro.in-berlin.de/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Postmedia+Discourses
(The paper is 'work in progress'. Some of its ideas were first presented
in a seminar at Leuphana University of Lüneburg in the spring of 2012
and at the "Unneeded Conversations" symposium at the Faculdade de Belas
Artes da Universidade do Porto (FBAUP), in May 2012. The text will be
included in: Unneeded Texts, Vol.2, Porto, i2ADS, 2014 (forthcoming))
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