Just a quick note to say that the roundtable on ‘The Urban as Emergent Key Concept for Media Theory’ in Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture has reached it’s conclusion. Now available are opening essays and responses from Zlatan Krajina, André Jansson, Myria Georgiou, Giorgia Aiello and me. Here’s an excerpt from my concluding … Continue Reading
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The urban as emergent key concept for media theory: Mediapolis roundtable
Today a roundtable I have edited on ‘The Urban as Emergent Key Concept for Media Theory’ has been published online in Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture. This roundtable was initially spawned from a session at ICA 2016 in Fukuoka, Japan. In its journal form, it brings together contributions from five scholars (Zlatan Krajina, … Continue Reading
Event: What things are, what things do
Next week, on Friday 27 May, Güneş Tavmen and Hannah Barton are organising what looks to be an interesting interdisciplinary seminar titled ‘What things are, what things do’. The event – sponsored by Birkbeck Interdisciplinary Research in Media and Culture – will host a set of debates around the ‘structuring structures’ of media culture: in … Continue Reading
In the name of pedagogy: temporary reductions of media technology and culture
How the years pass. Tonight I begin my sixthfifth run of my module that is currently titled Media, Technology and Society. I realise sixfive(!) runs of a module might not sound like a lot particularly, but this is a module that has evolved significantly through the previous fivefour run throughs. I received it in 2010 … Continue Reading
Jussi Parikka at The Hub: Media Fossils and the Outerspace Anthropocene
This Friday, 24 October, the Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies, The Hub and the Computer Arts Society will be welcoming media theorist Jussi Parikka to Birkbeck. The lecture takes place in the Keynes Library at 43 Gordon Square, starting at 6pm , and followed by a drinks reception. The event is free but … Continue Reading
New article really, really published: The architectures of media power
Earlier last year I made mention of an article slowly making its way to publication. I was promised, in language seeming to implicitly recognize the general malaise of the approaching REF (thankfully behind us all in the UK … until 2020 which is already being talking about), that it would be out in the final … Continue Reading
Video now available for Conditions of Mediation preconference
Note: below you will find more specific links, through which you may advance to the remarks of specific speakers After much behind-the-scenes fidgeting and arranging, I’m happy to say we can finally make available an edited video recording of the two keynote symposiums from Conditions of Mediation, the ICA preconference I co-organized with Tim Markham, … Continue Reading