worth reading, extensive.
On 25 November 2013 19:30, Andreas Broeckmann <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> the following might be of interest. comments are welcome, -a
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> Andreas Broeckmann: "Postmedia" Discourses. A Working Paper. (2013)
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> Abstract
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> 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.
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> Read on:
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> http://www.mikro.in-berlin.de/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Postmedia+Discourses
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> (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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