[...After the Media]

News from the Slow-Fading Twentieth Century

Siegfried Zielinski, Gloria Custance

The media are now redundant. In an overview of developments spanning the past seventy years, Siegfried Zielinski’s [ . . . After the Media] discusses how the means of technology-based communication assumed a systemic character and how theory, art, and criticism were operative in this process. Media-explicit thinking is contrasted with media-implicit thought. Points of contact with an arts perspective include a reinterpretation of the artist Nam June Paik and an introduction to the work of Jake and Dinos Chapman. The essay ends with two appeals. In an outline of a precise philology of exact things, Zielinski suggests possibilities of how things could proceed after the media. With a vade mecum against psychopathia medialis in the form of a manifesto, the book advocates for a distinction to be made between online existence and offline being.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Image 1
• Introduction the Argument the Media Have Become Superfluous
• 1 Critique of the Strategic Generalization the Media Their Provence and Aims An Unabashed Tour DHorizon
• 2 In Praise of What is Not Systemic About the Arts For a Cultura Experimentalis
• 3 Thinking Media Explicitly and Implicitly and the Intimation of a Perspective For an Exact Philology of Precise Things
• 4 Be Offline and Exist Online
• Vademecum for the Prevention of Psychopathia Medialis Manifesto
• Select Bibliography of Literature Used and Literature Cited