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Abstrakt Obwohl es in der Medienforschung eine lange, kritische Tradition gibt und insofern keine ‘Diskussion’ eröffnet werden müsste, zeigt doch z. B. die unlängst erfolgte Gründung des ‘Netzwerks kritische Kommunikationswissenschaft’, dass es offenbar Bedarf gibt. In der – im deutschen Sprachraum von der Kommunikationswissenschaft unterschiedenen – Medienwissenschaft ist seit den 1980er Jahren eine starke Tendenz zur Zurückweisung kritischer (besonders wenn marxianischer) Theoriebestände zugunsten von ‘Materialitäten der Kommunikation’ sichtbar. Dass aber allein diese Begriffsbildung an die verschiedenen Formen materialistischen Denkens Marx’scher Provenienz anschließt, blieb weniger beachtet. Im Vortrag soll der Versuch diskutiert werden, eine kritische theoretische Position zu umreißen, die die Frage nach dem Medium ernst nimmt und das Medium nicht zum Mittel von z. B. Klasseninteressen reduziert. Kann man also die ‘Materialität der Kommunikation’ ins Zentrum rücken und dennoch zentrale Einsichten der marxianischen Diskussion bzgl. der krisenhaften, destruktiven Form kapitalistischer Vergesellschaftung bewahren? Biographical Note Prof. Dr. Jens Schröter, Inhaber des Lehrstuhls »Medienkulturwissenschaft« an der Universität Bonn. Professor für Multimediale Systeme an der Universität Siegen 2008-2015. Leiter der Graduiertenschule »Locating Media« an der Universität Siegen 2008-2012. Seit 2012 Antragssteller und Mitglied des DFG-Graduiertenkollegs 1769 „Locating Media“, Universität Siegen. 2010-2014 Projektleiter (zusammen mit Prof. Dr. Lorenz Engell, Weimar): „Die Fernsehserie als Projektion und Reflexion des Wandels“. Sprecher des Projekts „Die Gesellschaft nach dem Geld“, VW Stiftung. Forschungsschwerpunkte: Digitale Medien, Photographie, Fernsehserien, Dreidimensionale Bilder, Intermedialität, Kritische Medientheorie. April/Mai 2014: „John von Neumann“-Fellowship an der Universität Szeged; September 2014: Gastprofessur an der Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, VR China; WS 14/15 Senior-Fellowship am DFG-Forscherkolleg „Medienkulturen der Computersimulation“, Leuphana-Universität Lüneburg. SS 17 Senior-Fellowship am IFK, Wien. WS 17/18 Senior-Fellowship am IKKM, Weimar. www.medienkulturwissenschaft-bonn.de.
Emily Carr Twilight Hour Speaker Series T’ai Smith is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory at the University of British Columbia. Her forthcoming book, entitled *Writing on Weaving: a Bauhaus Craft, a Bauhaus Medium*, looks at how Bauhaus weavers articulated, through essays, the specific dimensions of their craft. That book will be out from University of Minnesota Press in late 2014. Her articles and reviews have appeared in various periodicals, including Art Journal, Grey Room, Journal of Modern Craft, and Texte zur Kunst. She is currently developing a new book project, provisionally titled “Textile Media and Philosophy," which will examine the use of textile metaphors in media theory and philosophy since the 19th-century. Next summer she will be a fellow at IKKM, a media studies institute at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany.
IKKM Lectures 2013/2014: Markus Stauff (Amsterdam)»Replay, Highlight, Database: History According to Sports’ Media«Paper presented as part of the IKKM Lectures 2013/2014 on November 13th, 2013For further information, please visit www.ikkm-weimar.de
IKKM Lectures 2013: Boris Groys (New York)»Alexander Kojève: The Sage as Photographer«Paper presented as part of the IKKM Lectures 2013 on June 19th, 2013For further information, please visit www.ikkm-weimar.de
IKKM Lectures 2013: Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky (Bochum)»Play and Time«Paper presented as part of the IKKM Lectures 2013 on July 3th, 2013For further information, please visit www.ikkm-weimar.de
IKKM Lectures 2013: Christa Blümlinger (Paris)»Synchronization of the Archive and Topology of Film«Paper presented as part of the IKKM Lectures 2013 on May 29th, 2013For further information, please visit www.ikkm-weimar.de
IKKM Lectures 2013: Antoine Hennion (Paris)»Attachments, Agencements: A Pragmatist Inquiry into Things that Matter«Paper presented as part of the IKKM Lectures 2013 on May 22th, 2013For further information, please visit www.ikkm-weimar.de
IKKM Lectures 2013: Ludger Schwarte (Düsseldorf)»The Temporal Structures of Pictures«Paper presented as part of the IKKM Lectures 2013 on May 15th, 2013For further information, please visit www.ikkm-weimar.de
IKKM Lectures 2013: Mark B. Hansen (Durham, NC)»Always Totalize! Whitehead’s Imperative and the Speculative Phenomenology of Media«Paper presented as part of the IKKM Lectures 2013 on June 26th, 2013For further information, please visit www.ikkm-weimar.de
IKKM Lectures 2013: Bruno Latour & Antoine Hennion (Paris)»L’Ange de l’œuvre. Étienne Souriau, from Aesthetics to an Ontology of Uncertain Beings«Paper presented as part of the IKKM Lectures 2013 on June 12th, 2013For further information, please visit www.ikkm-weimar.de
IKKM Lectures 2012/2013: Rick Altman (Iowa, IA)»New Wine in Old Wineskins: The Rise and Fall of Early Sync Sound Systems«Paper presented as part of the IKKM Lectures 2012/2013 on November 7th, 2012For further information, please visit www.ikkm-weimar.de
IKKM Lectures 2012/2013: Thomas Elsaesser (Amsterdam)»Film and Philosophy after Deleuze«Paper presented as part of the IKKM Lectures 2012/2013 on November 28th, 2012For further information, please visit www.ikkm-weimar.de
IKKM Lectures 2012/2013: Rosalind Morris (New York, NY)»In the Event of Protest: Oppositional Politics in South Africa«Paper presented as part of the IKKM Lectures 2012/2013 on January 23th, 2013For further information, please visit www.ikkm-weimar.de
IKKM Lectures 2012/2013: Wolfram Pichler (Wien)»Aesthetics of Simultaneity in Retrospect«Paper presented as part of the IKKM Lectures 2012/2013 on December 05th, 2012For further information, please visit www.ikkm-weimar.de
IKKM Lectures 2012/2013: Sybille Krämer (Berlin)»Epistemology of Planarity. Reflections on the Diagrammatical Mind«Paper presented as part of the IKKM Lectures 2012/2013 on January 16th, 2013For further information, please visit www.ikkm-weimar.de
IKKM Lectures 2012/2013: Andrew Pickering (Exeter)»Art & Agency«Paper presented as part of the IKKM Lectures 2012/2013 on January 30th, 2013For further information, please visit www.ikkm-weimar.de
IKKM Lectures 2012/2013: Gerd Zimmermann (Weimar)»Dreamworks. Architecture and the Digital Image.«Paper presented as part of the IKKM Lectures 2012/2013 on January 9th, 2013For further information, please visit www.ikkm-weimar.de
IKKM Lectures 2012: JIMENA CANALES (BOSTON, MA) »The Media of Relativity: Einstein's Universe and Telecommunications Technologie«Paper presented as part of the IKKM Lectures 2012 on 4 July 2012For further information, please visit www.ikkm-weimar.de
IKKM Lectures 2012: SIGRID WEIGEL (BERLIN) »The Lightning Flash of Knowledge and the Temporality of Images«Paper presented as part of the IKKM Lectures 2012 on 27 June 2012For further information, please visit www.ikkm-weimar.de
IKKM Lectures 2012: CHRIS SALTER (MONTREAL, BERLIN) »Temporal Affects: Performance, Agency and the Aesthetics of Real Time«Paper presented as part of the IKKM Lectures 2012 on 6 June 2012For further information, please visit www.ikkm-weimar.de
IKKM Lectures 2012: JOHN CALDWELL (LOS ANGELES, CA) »Real-Time Theorizing by the Para-Industry«Paper presented as part of the IKKM Lectures 2012 on 16 May 2012For further information, please visit www.ikkm-weimar.de
IKKM Lectures 2012: FRANCESCO CASETTI (NEW HAVEN) »A-Synchronies: or How to Produce the Past in a Present Situation«Paper presented as part of the IKKM Lectures 2012 on 09 May 2012For further information, please visit www.ikkm-weimar.de
IKKM Lectures 2012: WEIHONG BAO (NEW YORK) »Synchronous Asynchronicity: Intermedial Aesthetics and Colonial Modernity at the Transition to Sound«Paper presented as part of the IKKM Lectures 2012 on 02 May 2012For further information, please visit www.ikkm-weimar.de