Postphenomenology and Media

Essays on HumanMediaWorld Relations

Foreword by Don Ihde Contributions by Lars Botin, Pieter Lemmens, Nicola Liberati, Shoji Nagataki, Robert Rosenberger, Fernando Secomandi, Robert N. Spicer, Daniel Susser, Heather Wiltse, Stacey O'Neal Irwin, Galit Wellner, Yoni Van Den Eede Free University of Brussels Edited by Yoni Van Den Eede Free University of Brussels, Stacey O'Neal Irwin, Galit Wellner

Publication date:

23 June 2017

Length of book:

294 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

Dimensions:

252x160mm
6x10"

ISBN-13: 9781498550147

Postphenomenology and Media: Essays on Human–Media–World Relations sheds light on how new, digital media are shaping humans and their world. It does so by using the postphenomenological framework to comprehensively study “human-media relations,” making use of conceptual instruments such as the transparency-opacity distinction, embodiment, multistability, variational analysis, and cultural hermeneutics. This collection outlines central issues of media and mediation theory that can be explored postphenomenologically and showcases research at the cutting edge of philosophy of media and technology. The contributors together enlarge the range of thinking about human-media-world relations in contemporary society, reflecting the interdisciplinary range of this school of thought, and explore, sometimes self-reflexively and sometimes critically, the provocative landscape of postphenomenology and media.

Foreword: Shadows and the New Media
Don Ihde
Acknowledgements
Introduction: “What Media Do”
Yoni Van Den Eede, Stacey O. Irwin, and Galit Wellner
Part 1: Exploring Media Environments with Postphenomenology
Chapter One: Mediating (Infra)structures: Technology, Media, Environment
Heather Wiltse
Chapter Two: Transparent Media and the Development of Digital Habits
Daniel Susser
Chapter Three: Body, Technology, and Humanity
Shoji Nagataki
Chapter Four: Magic, Augmentations, and Digital Powers
Nicola Liberati
Part 2: Postphenomenologically Investigating Media Cases
Chapter Five: Extensions and Concentric Circles: Exploring Transparency and Opacity in Three Media Technologies
Robert N. Spicer
Chapter Six: Multimedia Stabilities: Exploring the GoPro Experience
Stacey O. Irwin
Chapter Seven: Digital Images and Multistability in Design Practice
Fernando Secomandi
Chapter Eight: On the Immersion of E-Reading (Or Lack Thereof)
Robert Rosenberger
Part 3: Shaping Postphenomenological Media Theory
Chapter Nine: Sublime Embodiment of the Media
Lars Botin
Chapter Ten: Thinking Through Media: Stieglerian Remarks on a Possible Postphenomenology of Media
Pieter Lemmens
Chapter Eleven: I-Media-World: The Algorithmic Shift from Hermeneutic Relations to Writing Relations
Galit Wellner
Chapter Twelve: The Mediumness of World: A Love Triangle of Postphenomenology, Media Ecology, and Object-Oriented Philosophy
Yoni Van Den Eede

These timely and penetrating essays in the philosophy of technology employ the tools of postphenomenology and pragmatism to explore what media are and what they do. Advancing the work of Marshal McLuhan and Don Ihde, they offer crucial insights into how we are to live in an era when virtually everything mediates our experience.