Media Parasites in the Early Avant-Garde

On the Abuse of Technology and Communication
2012. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-137-27685-8
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: Avant-Gardes in Performance

Niebisch retraces how the early Avant-Garde movements started out as parasites inhabiting and irritating the emerging mass media circuits of the press, cinema, and wired and wireless communication and how they aimed at creating a media ecology based on and inspired by technologies such as the radio and the photo cell.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Niebisch, A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Press and the Parasites 2. Poetic Media Effects 3. Parasitic Media 4. Parasitic Noise 5. Ether Parasites Conclusion: Odradek and the Future of the Parasite

Über Autor(innen)

Arndt Niebisch is an assistant professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA.