Tag: Medium

January 31, 2024

No Medium

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Free Download Craig Dworkin, "No Medium"
English | ISBN: 0262018705 | 2013 | 232 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Close readings of ostensibly "blank" works-from unprinted pages to silent music-that point to a new understanding of media.

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January 19, 2024

The Panorama History of a Mass Medium

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Free Download The Panorama: History of a Mass Medium By Stephan Oettermann
1997 | 407 Pages | ISBN: 0942299833 | PDF | 77 MB
In the wide-ranging contemporary debates about visuality and the emergence of the modern spectator, the significance of panorama painting in the nineteenth century is frequently cited. Stephan Oettermann’s book The Panorama provides the first major historical study of the rich phenomenon of the panorama in English, offering a valuable and much-needed source of historical details and ideas about one of the most influential forms of visual entertainment in the nineteenth century. In this richly illustrated book, Oettermann gives readers a concrete sense of the structural and experiential reality of the panorama and the many forms it took throughout Europe and North America — a crucial task, since very few of the original nineteenth-century panoramas survive. At the same time, he outlines the many ways in which these remarkable and often immense 360-degree images were part of a larger transformation of the status of the observer and of popular culture. Thus, the panorama is treated not only as a new kind of image but also as an architectural and informational component of the new urban spaces and media networks. For anyone interested in the origins of contemporary visual culture, this book will be indispensable.

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January 12, 2024

A Medium Seen Otherwise Photography in Documentary Film

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Free Download A Medium Seen Otherwise: Photography in Documentary Film by Roger Hallas
English | July 21, 2023 | ISBN: 0190057769, 0190057777 | True EPUB/PDF | 276 pages | 34.4/36.5 MB
Through a new look at how political, historical, and art documentaries engage with photographic images, objects, and archives, A Medium Seen Otherwise argues that film allows us to better understand what people do with analog and digital photographs as material objects that enable social and political relations through multisensory experience. Moreover, as a time-based medium with sound, film can bring the event of photography into fuller view, demonstrating how no single participant in it (photographer, subject, camera, photograph, or viewer) has sovereignty over its affect, meaning, or value. The book thus explores the ways in which the innovative incorporation of photography into documentary film permits us to see both of these media otherwise. Photographs, whether professional or vernacular, are conventionally understood to furnish documentaries with indexical evidence and visual illustration of history, yet the spatio-temporal and aural dimensions of film permit documentaries to illuminate photography’s wider capacities beyond the merely representational.

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January 1, 2024

Philosophy of the Medium The Age of McLuhan in Question

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Free Download John Lechte, "Philosophy of the Medium: The Age of McLuhan in Question"
English | ISBN: 1350299189 | 2023 | 236 pages | EPUB | 462 KB
Taking the principle of the ‘disappearance of the medium’ into new territory, this book questions the pervasive influence of the principle that the ‘medium is the message’. Bold and expansive, this book argues that we have for too long focused on the technical specificities of media, when we should have been focusing on what it is that mediums do, that is, on their ‘content’ rather than their formal and technical qualities. With a re-reading of McLuhan, this volume offers a study of the conflicting views of technics as a medium in Bernard Stiegler’s work as well as an investigation into the extent to which Michel Serres’ work on communication sheds light on the nature of medium. Engaging also with the concept of Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO), and the notion of probabilistic objects in quantum physics and climate change, he explores the way in which measurement is perceived to ‘create’ reality. Concluding with a fascinating study of the implications of consciousness as a medium, this book ultimately reconsiders and offers a deeper understanding of what we mean by the term ‘media’: it is that which comes ‘between’ and which facilitates the transmission of content, essentially a creator of possibilities, yet never present as such in the light of its success as a vehicle for meaning.

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