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ABOUT THE BOOK

Launching Bloomsbury's Thinking Media series, Media Matter introduces readers to the nascent field of media-philosophy. Contributors urge readers to re-adjust their ideas of Media Studies, by extending the understanding of "medium" to include a concept of materiality that also includes "non-human" transmitters (elements such as water, earth, fire, air) and also by understanding media not only in the context of cultural or discursive systems or apparatuses, relays, transistors, hardware or "discourse networks," but more inclusively, in terms of a "media ecology."
Beginning with more general essays on media and then focusing on particular themes (neuroplasticity, photography, sculpture and music), especially in relation to film, Herzogenrath and the contributors redefine the concept of "medium" in order to think through media, rather than about them.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Media Matter: An Introduction
Bernd Herzogenrath (Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany)

Theory-Matter

Chapter 1: The Meta-Physics of Media
Walter Seitter (University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria)

Chapter 2: Media Matter: Materiality and Performativity in Media Theory
Katerina Krtilova (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany)

Text-Matter

Chapter 3: Between Print Matter and Page Matter: The Codex Platform as Media Suppoort
Garrett Stewart (University of Iowa, USA)

Chapter 4: 'Local Color': Light in Faulkner
Hanjo Berressem (University of Cologne, Germany)

Film-Matter

Chapter 5: Figure-Ground: Stills from the Films of Bill Morrison
Bill Morrison (Hypnotic Pictures)

Chapter 6: Matter that Images: Bill Morrison's Decasia
Bernd Herzogenrath (Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany)

Chapter 7: Moving Images as Ontographic Images
Lorenz Engell (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany)

Chapter 8: Brain Matter and New Phrenologies; Challenging Brains with Melancholy and Vice Versa
Benjamin Betka (Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany)

Chapter 9: The Media Boundary Objects Concept: Theorizing Film and Media
Florian Hoof (Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany)

Art-Matter

Chapter 10: Borderline: Nauman's Balls and Acconci's Shoot
Eva Ehninger (University of Bern, Switzerland)

Chapter 11: The Romantic Readymade: Towards a Material Vitalism of Contemporary Art
Stephen Zepke (University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria)

Sound-Matter

Chapter 12: Revisiting the Voice in Media and as Medium: New Materialist Propositions
Milla Tiainen (University of Helsinki, Finland)

Chapter 13: Sonic Matter: The Material Cut-Ups of Christian Marclay
Sebastian Scherer (Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany)

Chapter 14: Media Disenchantments
Thomas Köner (Composer, Sound-Artist, Belgrade, Serbia, and Nice, France)