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The New Apparatus Theory
So my comrade in gadget theory, Grant Wythoff, and I have been bouncing notes back and forth for a year or so about the return of the apparatus to media theory. I suppose it'd be more precise to say it...
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Media of Philosophy II: Thinking with Technical Standards
I’ve just come back from a three-hour editing session with the Berlin-based video artist Antoine Desvigne. We’re collaborating on a video project based on the Skype-intervention Avital Ronell made in...
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CFP: Models and Modelling, Archiv für Mediengeschichte
The Archiv für Mediengeschichte is one of the crown jewels of contemporary research on the history, theory, and philosophy of media. It seems to me that journal success sometimes means a sort of...
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Florian Sprenger on the Media of Immediacy
PDF: GLOBAL IMMEDIACY by Florian SprengerBetween the Ends of a Wire: Electricity, Instantaneity and the World of Telegraphy by Florian SprengerI recently wrote a book review of Bernhard Siegert's...
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On Siegert's "Cultural Techniques" and Sprenger's "Medien des Immediaten"
I wrote book reviews of Bernhard Siegert's forthcoming "Cultural Techniques: Grids, Filters, Doors and Other Articulations of the Real" and of Florian Sprenger's "Medien des Immediaten. Elektrizität,...
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Computing and Historiography, Part 1
How does the work of building computers relate to the writing of computing history? At first glance, this seems an easy enough thing to describe: Scientists, engineers, and industries invent or...
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Computing and Historiography, Part 2: Parasitology
[For part 1 of this post click here]A modest amount of time spent in archive impresses upon most historians the symbiotic relations that prevail among history-makers and history-writers. I don’t mean...
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Information in Formation
I'm writing a short text on "information" for the collection Digital Keywords edited by Ben Peters and to be published by Princeton University Press. Lots of great folks will be in there like Gabriella...
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Untimely Mediations: Siegert and Sprenger Review
PDF: Geoghegan_Siegert_Sprenger_Review.pdfI recently reviewed Bernhard Siegert's CULTURAL TECHNIQUES and Florian Sprenger's MEDIEN DES IMMEDIATEN for the literary journal PARAGRAPH. For those of you...
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Times of the Technosphere: First and Second Session
For participants of the first and second session, please download the syllabus, essay by Peter Haff, and interview with Erich Hörl at the email link below. Thank...
View ArticleOpportunities for refugees to study at HU-Berlin
I received this email from a colleague concerning opportunities for refugees in Germany to take classes at the Humboldt University of Berlin. There's an event to be held on the 22 Sept 2015 at the HU...
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Infrastructure as Experience
I'm giving a talk in Dublin next week. Announcement here: Infrastructure as Experience, or: Visualizing Networks After Snowden18:30, February 2nd 2016, Neill lecture theatre (Trinity College Dublin)How...
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The Digital Lives of Art History
Great opportunity co-organized by my colleague Stuart Dunn: Institute in Ancient Itineraries: The Digital Lives of Art HistoryCall for members (deadline June 1st 2018) This 18-month Institute in...
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