Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture

Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005. First edition, first printing (full number line). Small quarto in purple jacket; x, 265 pages: illustrations; 24 cm.; bibliographical references (pages 231-256) and index. Fine in fine jacket; as new. Hardcover. ISBN: 026206247X

Contents: Foreword / Joel Slayton -- Introduction: media ecologies -- 1. The R, the A, the D, the I, the O: the media ecology of pirate radio -- 2. The camera that ate itself -- 3. How this becomes that -- 4. Seams, memes, and flecks of identity -- Inventory. / "In Media Ecologies, Matthew Fuller asks what happens when media systems interact. Complex objects such as media systems - understood here as processes, or elements in a composition as much as "things"--Have become informational as much as physical, but without losing any of their fundamental materiality. Fuller looks at this multiplicitous materiality - how it can be sensed, made use of, and how it makes other possibilities tangible. He investigates the ways the different qualities in media systems can be said to mix and interrelate, and, as he writes "to produce patterns, dangers, and potentials"." "Fuller draws on texts by Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze, as well as writings by Friedrich Nietzsche, Marshall McLuhan, Donna Haraway, Friedrich Kittler, and others, to define and extend the idea of "media ecology"."--Jacket. / Aesthetics, Modern -- 20th century. Digital communications. Mass media -- Aesthetics. Telecommunication. Technology and the arts. Telecommunications Médias -- Esthétique. Transmission numérique. Télécommunications. Technologie et arts. Esthétique -- 20e siècle. telecommunications. Aesthetics, Modern. Digital communications. Mass media -- Aesthetics. Technology and the arts. Telecommunication. Massenmedien Ästhetik Massamedia. Esthetica. Telecommunicatie. Aesthetics, Modern -- 20th century. Digital communications. Mass media -- Aesthetics. Telecommunication. Technology and the arts.