We Need to Talk About Heidegger
Essays Situating Martin Heidegger in Contemporary Media Studies
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Edited By Justin Michael Battin and German A. Duarte
This collection assembles a number of chapters engaging different strands of Martin Heidegger’s philosophy in order to explore issues relevant to contemporary media studies. Following the release of Heidegger’s controversial Black Notebooks and the subsequent calls to abandon the philosopher, this book seeks to demonstrate why Heidegger, rather than be pushed aside and shunned by media practitioners, ought to be embraced by and further incorporated into the discipline, as he offers unique and often innovative pathways to address, and ultimately understand, our daily engagements with media-related phenomena.
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- Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien. 2018. 316 p.
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- About the editors
- About the book
- Citability of the eBook
- Contents
- Series Title
- Martin Heidegger and Media Studies
- Introducing the Fractal Character of Dasein in the Digital Age
- 1 Toward a topologic condition
- 2 Wohnen in the topological space
- 3 When subject and object differ from Dasein
- 4 The medium is the space
- 5 Replacing the alphabetic νῦν (now) for the video-electronic ἀεί (ever, unceasing)
- 6 The limits of a mediated existence
- 7 Digital Gegenstände
- The Manual: Heidegger and Fundamental Oto-cheiro-logy I
- 1 Announcement: media res and mediality
- 2 A history of monstration and danger
- 3 The singular hand and the typewriter
- 4 The tool of tools: mnemotechnics and Gestell
- 5 Nearness: the kairos of the cheir
- Ereignis and Lichtung in the Production of a Galaxy Far Far Away
- 1 Living in being (and with things): Ereignis and Lichtung
- 2 The event of appropriation and engagement with things
- 3 Conclusion
- Feeling Photography: Exploring Care, Attunement, and Dwelling through the Work of Andre Kertész
- 1 Experiencing photography, doing phenomenology
- 2 André Kertész: a life
- 3 The camera, the thing
- 4 Feeling photography
- 5 As above, so below
- 6 Conclusion
- Self-Understanding in the Age of the Selfie: Kierkegaard, Dreyfus, and Heidegger on Social Networks
- Speaking the Unspeakable: Heidegger and Social Media’s ‘Mouseclick Solidarity’
- 1 Introduction. The philosophical slug: philosophy doesn’t tweet well
- 2 Mindless chatter on social media: speaking the unspeakable
- 3 The essence of technology is nothing technological: the enframing qualities of social media
- 4 Mouseclick-solidarity and the digital sublime
- 5 Conclusion: the solidarity toolbox
- Thinking Architecture through Heidegger’s Views
- 1 Heidegger for architecture
- 2 Revealing the existent (the concept of aletheia)
- 3 Sculpting in time: from Michelangelo to Tarkovsky
- 4 Dwelling in the cinematic frame
- 5 Architecture practicing nostalgia
- 6 Conclusion
- Take a Wander in My Shoes: Of Zombeing, Twombs, and Equipmentality
- 1 Equip-mentality/equipment-ality
- 2 His head’s gone
- 3 The Walking Dead and its equipmental turning toward Zombeing
- 4 Zombeing and time
- 5 Heidegger’s mishandling of zombies
- Heidegger’s Topology in the World/s of Ubiquitous Computing
- 1 Being-in(-the-world)
- 2 Being-with
- 3 Thingliness
- 4 Ge-Stell
- 5 Dwelling
- 6 Conclusion: Toward a techno-social ontology of place/s
- A Decisive Mediation: Heidegger, Media Studies, and Ethics*
- 1 An epistemological problem: media
- 2 A political problem: Heidegger
- 3 Ethics as mediation
- 4 A Decisive mediation
- From Ontology to Organology: Heidegger and Stiegler on the Danger and Ambiguity of Technology and Technical Media
- 1 Heidegger on the essence of technology
- 2 The essence of modern technology as enframing
- 3 The danger and the saving power of technology in Heidegger
- 4 The ambiguity of technology in Heidegger
- 5 Stiegler on the original technicity of being-there
- 6 Retentional finitude and the original technicity of time
- 7 Being-there as individuation and man as an organological being
- 8 The human condition as original default and man as a pharmacological being
- 9 Loss of the original default: organo-pharmacological reinterpretation of the danger
- 10 The danger of technology as proletarianization and the ruination of the original default
- 11 By way of a conclusion
- Author Biographies
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Justin Michael Battin and German A. Duarte
Introduction
Media studies, much like critical theory, attempts to understand the effects of mass media on societies and to draw links between issues of representation, media artifacts, and, to echo Adorno, the culture industries, often with the intent of elucidating its potential as a hegemonic force. In 2007, David Morley suggested that the research output distributed under the designation of media studies had gradually become too idealist and exclusively concentrated on media itself, as both content and a dispositive.1 In his view, a non-media-centric form of media studies must emerge in order to return the discipline to, in his own words, “its full range of classical concerns.”2 Inspired by the time-space compression that has come to epitomize our contemporary social, economic, and political context, Morley suggested that a new paradigm for the discipline was needed, one that “attends more closely to its material as well as its symbolic dimensions.”3 Following this framework, Shaun Moores argues that media studies has become too captivated with symbolic representation and cognitive interpretation as its primary means of investigation,4 and echoes Morley’s call for more inclusive form of the discipline, one that seeks to engage with a diverse collection of discourses circulating across the social sciences. This solicitation for a materialist intervention unveiled an opening to allow what we feel was Heidegger’s inevitable entry into the discipline.
Considering that Heidegger often regarded as being one of the most relevant...
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- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- About the editors
- About the book
- Citability of the eBook
- Contents
- Series Title
- Martin Heidegger and Media Studies
- Introducing the Fractal Character of Dasein in the Digital Age
- 1 Toward a topologic condition
- 2 Wohnen in the topological space
- 3 When subject and object differ from Dasein
- 4 The medium is the space
- 5 Replacing the alphabetic νῦν (now) for the video-electronic ἀεί (ever, unceasing)
- 6 The limits of a mediated existence
- 7 Digital Gegenstände
- The Manual: Heidegger and Fundamental Oto-cheiro-logy I
- 1 Announcement: media res and mediality
- 2 A history of monstration and danger
- 3 The singular hand and the typewriter
- 4 The tool of tools: mnemotechnics and Gestell
- 5 Nearness: the kairos of the cheir
- Ereignis and Lichtung in the Production of a Galaxy Far Far Away
- 1 Living in being (and with things): Ereignis and Lichtung
- 2 The event of appropriation and engagement with things
- 3 Conclusion
- Feeling Photography: Exploring Care, Attunement, and Dwelling through the Work of Andre Kertész
- 1 Experiencing photography, doing phenomenology
- 2 André Kertész: a life
- 3 The camera, the thing
- 4 Feeling photography
- 5 As above, so below
- 6 Conclusion
- Self-Understanding in the Age of the Selfie: Kierkegaard, Dreyfus, and Heidegger on Social Networks
- Speaking the Unspeakable: Heidegger and Social Media’s ‘Mouseclick Solidarity’
- 1 Introduction. The philosophical slug: philosophy doesn’t tweet well
- 2 Mindless chatter on social media: speaking the unspeakable
- 3 The essence of technology is nothing technological: the enframing qualities of social media
- 4 Mouseclick-solidarity and the digital sublime
- 5 Conclusion: the solidarity toolbox
- Thinking Architecture through Heidegger’s Views
- 1 Heidegger for architecture
- 2 Revealing the existent (the concept of aletheia)
- 3 Sculpting in time: from Michelangelo to Tarkovsky
- 4 Dwelling in the cinematic frame
- 5 Architecture practicing nostalgia
- 6 Conclusion
- Take a Wander in My Shoes: Of Zombeing, Twombs, and Equipmentality
- 1 Equip-mentality/equipment-ality
- 2 His head’s gone
- 3 The Walking Dead and its equipmental turning toward Zombeing
- 4 Zombeing and time
- 5 Heidegger’s mishandling of zombies
- Heidegger’s Topology in the World/s of Ubiquitous Computing
- 1 Being-in(-the-world)
- 2 Being-with
- 3 Thingliness
- 4 Ge-Stell
- 5 Dwelling
- 6 Conclusion: Toward a techno-social ontology of place/s
- A Decisive Mediation: Heidegger, Media Studies, and Ethics*
- 1 An epistemological problem: media
- 2 A political problem: Heidegger
- 3 Ethics as mediation
- 4 A Decisive mediation
- From Ontology to Organology: Heidegger and Stiegler on the Danger and Ambiguity of Technology and Technical Media
- 1 Heidegger on the essence of technology
- 2 The essence of modern technology as enframing
- 3 The danger and the saving power of technology in Heidegger
- 4 The ambiguity of technology in Heidegger
- 5 Stiegler on the original technicity of being-there
- 6 Retentional finitude and the original technicity of time
- 7 Being-there as individuation and man as an organological being
- 8 The human condition as original default and man as a pharmacological being
- 9 Loss of the original default: organo-pharmacological reinterpretation of the danger
- 10 The danger of technology as proletarianization and the ruination of the original default
- 11 By way of a conclusion
- Author Biographies