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The laser: On the quantum materiality of media in the twentieth century

December 8, 2022/in Autumn 2022_#Materiality

The question of the materiality of the media of the second half of the twentieth century cannot be answered without recourse to the role of quantum mechanics. Nearly all media technologies since 1945 presuppose quantum mechanics in one way or the other. The laser is especially important – this kind of coherent light, produced by stimulated emission is central to a huge plethora of very different, analog or digital, visual, audiovisual or auditory media technologies. In contrast to the role of quantum mechanics and especially the laser, the difference of analog and digital seems secondary.

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All the Rumors Are True

June 18, 2022/in Spring 2022_#Rumors

by Nicholas Baer and Maggie Hennefeld There have been many who have accused me to you for many years now, and none of their accusations are true. –Plato, Apology[1]   All the rumors are true, yeah / What ya’ heard, that’s true, yeah –Lizzo featuring Cardi B, ‘Rumors’[2] Rumor had it that Socrates was impious […]

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Editorial NECSUS

July 6, 2020/in Spring 2020_#Intelligence

This issue of NECSUS has been compiled, if not written, during the COVID-19 pandemic which has produced a shock across various existential domains: personal, social, political, economic, public health — the list goes on. Some of us may already have settled into new habits and routines that make this situation livable; yet a sense of […]

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The artificial intelligence of a machine: Moving images in the age of algorithms

July 6, 2020/in Spring 2020_#Intelligence

This article introduces the special section #Intelligence, which includes seven essays addressing the impact of artificial intelligence on cinema and media from a cultural perspective. More particularly, three levels of pertinence are focused on. For the first level, selected papers analyse several representations of non-human intelligence confronted with human intelligence, as provided by film, television series, and video games. On the second level, a set of mutual functioning dynamics between AI and the media are identified and scrutinised. On the third level, the contributing authors consider how AI algorithms lead cinema and media theory to deeply rethink its assumptions about creating and viewing moving images.

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Lecture Series – ‘Kracauer Lectures in Film and Media Theory’

May 1, 2020/in News

The online media repository media/rep/ – which also provides PDF downloads of our issues – has made several lectures from the ‘Kracauer Lectures in Film and Media Theory’, held at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, available online. The lecture series, named in honor of the Frankfurt-born philosopher, sociologist, and writer Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966), presents innovative […]

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Open call for submissions: Features

April 13, 2020/in News

NECSUS accepts abstract submissions twice per year for a wide variety of articles on a number of themes related to media studies but not necessarily connected to a special section topic. These submissions will be considered for the Features section, which is part of every journal issue. Articles in the Features section are full-length research […]

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Themed Playlists

April 11, 2020/in News

The Centre for Screen Cultures at the University of St Andrews has asked staff members, visiting lecturers and PhD students to create themed playlists covering film, television and video. Ranging from contemporary films on human isolation to a playlist centered on documentarian Naomi Kawase, the playlists function both as resources for teaching as well as […]

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Call for festival reviews: Film festivals and COVID-19

April 9, 2020/in News

As film events are currently being cancelled, postponed or moved online, we are specifically inviting “festival reviews” that deal with film festivals in the context of COVID-19 for the film festival review section of our upcoming Autumn 2020 issue.  What tactics and strategies are employed to face the current crisis in the festival world? Possible […]

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Autumn 2020_#Method, call for submissions

January 19, 2020/in News

‘There is a point at which methods devour themselves.’ – Frantz Fanon (Black Skin, White Masks) One can observe, in recent years, an obsession with methods – both in humanities research and teaching. Discussions include apprehensions about the imminent obsolescence of established media studies methodologies, a more liberal (in all senses?) search for synergies with […]

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Media Experiences / Popularizing Japanese TV

December 21, 2019/in Autumn 2019_#Gesture, Book Reviews, Reviews

Hakan Ergül’s Popularizing Japanese TV: The Cultural, Economic, and Emotional Dimensions of Infotainment Discourse (London-New York: Routledge, 2019) and Annette Hill’s Media Experiences: Engaging with Drama and Reality Television (London-New York: Routledge, 2019) constitute two recent examples of strenuous ethnographic work with empirical focus on popular television. Both publications reveal the extremely rewarding character of […]

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On gesture, or of the blissful promise

December 19, 2019/in Autumn 2019_#Gesture

by Miriam de Rosa   Then at one point I did not need to translate the notes; they went directly to my hands. — Francesca Woodman   Often I believe I’m working toward a result, But always, once I reach the result, I realize all pleasure was in the planning and executing the path to […]

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The exact shape of the world? Media and mapping

January 28, 2019/in Autumn 2018_#Mapping

by Giorgio Avezzù, Teresa Castro, and Giuseppe Fidotta ‘There’s something to knowing the exact shape of the world and one’s place in it – don’t you agree?’ – Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (Gore Verbinski, 2006) Among the different critical turns that have been reshaping recent media scholarship, the emphasis on space and spatiality […]

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Plus ultra: Coloniality and the mapping of American natureculture in the empire of Philip II

December 10, 2018/in Autumn 2018_#Mapping

by Adam Wickberg Introduction By 1570 the Spanish empire under the reign of King Philip II had already ruled the part of Central America known as New Spain for half a century. The famous conquistadors like Hernán Cortés and Christopher Columbus were dead and gone, but stories of their great fortune were very much alive […]

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Media mapping and oil extraction: A Louisiana story

December 2, 2018/in Autumn 2018_#Mapping

by Janet Walker Introduction  Dead trees with leafless branches grey against the sky, flooded roads, houses raised up on stilts: such are the marks of coastal communities in peril in this time of environmental volatility and degradation. Chief Albert Naquin states in the 2015 documentary Can’t Stop the Water that ‘[t]he small Indian community of […]

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Concordia University, position in Critical Sexuality Studies in Film and Media

September 24, 2018/in News

Concordia University’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in the Faculty of Fine Arts invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position in Critical Sexuality Studies in Film and Media to begin 1 August 2019. Film Studies at Concordia University is an internationally renowned leader in scholarship and curriculum devoted to the study of sexuality, gender, […]

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University of Arts Belgrade

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University of Helsinki

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Universiteit Utrecht

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Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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University of Amsterdam

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University of Stirling

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