Die Nachricht, Ein Medium: Generische Medialit?t, St?dtische Architektonik [German]

By Vera Buhlmann

With her inversion of McLuhan's famous dictum that the medium be the message, the author attempts to sketch a concept of mediality that is capable of hosting and accommodating the self-referential agility of medialized instrumentality within an element of communicability. Mediality is conceived as virtual dis-positivity, and its core predication is to receive and index the totality of what can be a formally-symbolic, and hence a communicable, object. So conceived, mediality foils purely logical, as well as purely fictional notions of order and is capable of opening up the possibility of a civic architectonics, one capable of articulating its assemblages with polyvalent and discretely variable elements, and in a multitude of competing manners. In this book, the author traces the possibility of such an architectonics from a diagnostic and cultural-historical point of view.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: German
• ISBN: 3990436295
• ISBN13: 9783990436295
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Ambra Verlag
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary