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Media Theory 9.2: Includes commentaries by David Beer and N. Katherine Hayles, and a special section on 'Charles W. Mills and Media Theory', edited by Simon Dawes & Anamik Saha.
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Some visual highlights from the Media Theory Conference at the Coach House, Toronto, 2025
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MT Conference, Coach House, Toronto 2025 - Preliminary Schedule now available
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Last chance to register for the Media Theory at the Coach House Conference !
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Ignorance studies, as a field, needs more self-criticism.
It's worth challenging overly monolithic concepts like Mills's notion of 'white ignorance'.
Contra essentializing concepts, we need reciprist epistemology.
My longread out in Media Theory:
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It’s finally out:
“The Illumination of Black Twitter: Charles Mills, Race, and Digital Media Theory”
Thanks @SimonDawes2 and @meejatheory
Shoutout to @KathrynSBelle for help with this!
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New Pub! The gist: The shape imaginaries take pivot not only on what media make clearly visible but on what they offer up for speculation at their eco-technological edges. #elementalmedia #technofutures Open Access @meejatheory
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My article “Machines That Create: Contingent Computation and Generative AI” is now published in @meejatheory
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There I address the claims proposed in my 2018 book Contingent Computation vis-à-vis the AI developments occurred since ✨
Review: Abelardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka’s Living Surfaces: Images, Plants, and Environments of Media. By Yuxing Zhang (Yolanda)
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"The combination of Blackness and Twitter represents a paradigm shift from modernity’s materialist “existence in Black” to a Black technoculture afforded by the digital’s capacities for virtuality, simulation, and interactivity." André Brock
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"To what extent is the radical potential that Benjamin once foresaw in montage applicable to image-based AI...? Geoff Cox considers this and more in the Media Theory special issue, Seeing Photographically.
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For the official version of record, see here: Cox, G. (2024). Photography at a Standstill. Media Theory, 8(1), 297–318. Retrieved from buff.ly/4gx9Owg
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Very generous words about our book: a review written by Yuxing Zhang (Yolanda) in the @meejatheory journal. Very grateful for this close reading and for the editors' decision to include it in the publication.
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"A unique contribution to discussions on multispecies ethnography and justice in anthropology from a media studies perspective ... 'Living Surfaces' is a thought-provoking read for scholars and students across diverse disciplines." @meejatheory bit.ly/3UiWpPM
We are at the new place everyone's been moving to recently. Say hello and follow us at meejatheory.bsky.social
"the question of filters can also work as an approach to the wider media ecologies of photography, suggesting new stakes for the theorization of photography more generally." Ina Blom and Matthew Fuller in the special issue, 'Seeing Photographically'. tinyurl.com/2s3hbkkf
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My latest article can be now downloaded from manovich.net. Lev Manovich. "‘Make it New’: GenAI, Modernism, and Database Art." Published in Trans-Spatial: Everything Tends to Be the Here and Now (Nam June Paik Art Center, 2024) manovich.net/index.php/proje…
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!!! Foucault's acute -- and ironical -- engagement with information theory, "Message or Noise?," is finally translated into English, with given a fine-grained & discerning introduction, by @internet_chris Both texts open access here. parrhesiajournal.org///