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Image/Vessel/Waste

Shira Brisman

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“Minimum Constellation Necessary for Type Confusion”: Letters to Norbert Wiener

Gregory Bateson

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“Terrestrial Not by Nature and Essence”: The Acclimatization Chamber as Surface Technology in South Africa, ca. 1958

Megan Eardley

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81

“The Higher Forms Are Also the Weaker Ones”: Technics and Humanism in Max Bense’s “Technical Existence”

William Stewart

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83

“The Idea Was in the Air”: Nadar’s Aerial Media

Emily Doucet

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“The Medium Is Leaking”: Notes on the Work of Pierre Huyghe and the “Ecologization” of Contemporary Art

André Rottmann

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‘Out to See Video’: EZTV’s Queer Microcinema in West Hollywood

Julia Bryan-Wilson

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73

(Audio-Visuals)

Frederico Morais

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66

The Nature of Play: Part 1, River Otters

Gregory Bateson, Weldon Kees

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A Black Carpet of Bitumen

Ateya Khorakiwala

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80

A Feedback Situation: Dennis Oppenheim’s Cybernetics of the Family

Anna Lovatt

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72

A Picture of Health: The Search for a Genre to Visualize Care in Late Ottoman Istanbul

Zeynep Devrim Gürsel

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A Proposal: Must We Ecologize?

Eric C.H. de Bruyn

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A Self-Portrait of Christ or the White Noise of Photography? Paul Vignon and the Earliest Photograph of the Shroud of Turin

Peter Geimer

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Academic Networks 1982/2016: The Provocations of a Reading

Florian Sprenger

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Air as Medium

Eva Horn

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Algorithmic Images: Artificial Intelligence and Visual Culture

Antonio Somaini

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An Artificial Mind in Mexico City (Autumn 1559)

Byron Ellsworth Hamann

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An Eternal Esthetics of Laborious Gestures

Allan Sekula

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Architecture Photographs

Wilhelm Lotz

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Articulated Flatness: Document Culture and Modernism in the Mundaneum and Beyond

Michael Faciejew

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Artificial Worlds and Perceptronic Objects: The CIA’s Mid-century Automatic Target Recognition

Julia Irwin

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83

Atmospheric Regulation in the Panorama

Nicholas Robbins

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Automaton Religion and the National Body: Ajeeb in Brazil

Paul Christopher Johnson

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Bad Brains: Cybernetics, Paranoia, and the Cognitive Science of Religion

John Lardas Modern

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60

Catacoustic Enchantment: The Romantic Conception of Reverberation

Joseph L. Clarke

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Cinema against the Permanent Curfew of Geometry: Guy Debord’s Sur le passage de quelques personnes à travers une assez courte unité de temps (1959)

Soyoung Yoon

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68

Cleverness and Drive, or the Cybernetic Fantasy of Value: R.S. Hunt’s “Two Kinds of Work”

Seb Franklin

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73

Click, Pulse: Frederico Morais and the Comparative Slide Lecture

Sonia de Laforcade

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Coding as Cultural Technique: On the Emergence of the Digital from Writing AC

Bernhard Siegert

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Coming Attraction: The Event of Color, Techniques of Screening and Filtering in Early “Natural” Color Film and Photography

Rachel Lee Hutcheson

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Constructed Situations, Dynamic Labyrinths, and Learning Mazes: Behavioral Topologies of the Cold War

Eric C.H. de Bruyn

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Contingent Cubism

Jeffrey Weiss

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Contractual Practices

Lauren van Haaften-Schick

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Curve, Line, Circle, Slash, Cross: A Diagram of Liquid Intelligence

Matthew C. Hunter

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Dance of Values: Reading Eisenstein’s Capital

Elena Vogman

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Death from Above in Minard’s Napoleon Map

Richard Taws

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Desktop Arenas: Magazine Pieces and the Professions of the Neo-Avant-Garde

Colby Chamberlain

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91

Does Bolsonaro Have a Point? (Or Does He Have a Semicolon?)

Maria José de Abreu

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60

Editor’s Introduction

Joseph L. Clarke

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Editor’s Introduction: What Bound the Double Bind?

Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan

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Editors’ Introduction: Pious Technologies and Secular Designs

María González Pendás, Whitney Laemmli

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Editors’ Introduction: The Aerial Image

Emily Doucet, Matthew C. Hunter, Nicholas Robbins

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Environments of Experimentation and Epistemologies of Surroundings: John Scott Haldane’s Physiology and Biopolitics of the Living

Florian Sprenger

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Envisioning Assembly: Archigram and the Light/Sound Workshop

Craig Buckley

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79

Everyday Myth

Harun Farocki

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77

Fiber Optics

Brandon Truett, Zoe Hughes, Andrew Bearnot, Bill Brown, Jacob Harris, A.P. Pettinelli, Matthew Beeber, Harrington Weihl

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85

Fieldnotes from Solaris: Ship’s Logs, Shipwrecks, and Salt Water as Medium

Byron Ellsworth Hamann

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Figures of Closure: Circles and Cycles in the History of Ecological Knowledge

Florian Sprenger

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79

Film Courses in Art Schools

Harun Farocki

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75

From Microform to the Drawing Bot: The Photographic Image as Data

Estelle Blaschke

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From Paperwork to “Mechanized Administration”: Designing the Bureaucracy of Self-Management in Postwar Yugoslavia

Rujana Rebernjak

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Geo-psychiatry: Media and the Ecologies of Madness

Elena Vogman

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Global Patterns: Hannah Höch, Interwar Abstraction, and the Weimar Inflation Crisis

Max Boersma

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Guy Debord and the Cultural Revolution

Sven Lütticken

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Guy Debord’s Time–Image: In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni (1978)

Benjamin Noys

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Hurlements en faveur de vous

Kaira M. Cabañas

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82

I.M. Pei’s JFK Library, in Poetry, Prose, and Meeting Minutes

Edward Eigen

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83

If a Painting Is Like a Window, Is It a Means of Ventilation?

Amy Knight Powell

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In Light of the Arc

Zachary Formwalt

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Inside: Out

Alma Steingart

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Instant Failure: Polaroid’s Polavision, 1977–1980

Erika Balsom

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Interaction Chronograph: The Administration of Equilibrium

Seth Barry Watter

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Introduction to François Ewald’s “The Values of Insurance”

Michael C. Behrent

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Introduction to Wölfflin’s “On Right and Left in Images”

Zeynep Çelik Alexander

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Life, Not Itself: Inanimacy and the Limits of Biology

Sophia Roosth

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Liquid Crowds: Regulatory Discourse and the Architecture of People Flows in the Nineteenth Century

Moritz Gleich

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Liquidity, Technicity, and the Predictive Turn in Chinese Ceramics

Jeffrey Moser

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Magic Waves, Extrasensory Powers, and Nonstop Instantaneity: Imagining the Digital beyond Digits

Xiao Liu

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Making the “World Spectacle Trial”: Design as Forensic Practice at the Nuremberg Trials

Alejandra Azuero-Quijano

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Missed Encounters: Critique de la séparation between the Riot and the ‘Young Girl’

Jason E. Smith

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Mood as the Content of Modern Art

Alois Riegl

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Mood for Modernists: An Introduction to Three Riegl Translations

Lucia Allais, Andrei Pop

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More Liquid than Liquid: Solid-Phase Bitumen and Its Forms

Hannah Tollefson, Darin Barney

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Multimedia Environments and Security Operations: Expo ‘70 as a Laboratory of Governance

Yuriko Furuhata

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Necessary Variation and Variety

Harun Farocki

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84

News from Nowhere: Participatory Design in the Scandinavian Workplace

Samuel Stewart-Halevy

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51

On “About Grey Room”

The Editors

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On Pierre Huyghe’s UUmweltanschauung: Art, Ecosystems Aesthetics, and General Ecology

Luke Skrebowski

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On Wires; or, Metals and Modernity Reconsidered

John Harwood

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Operations of Culture: Ernst Kapp’s Philosophy of Technology

Jeffrey West Kirkwood, Leif Weatherby

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Out of Reach: Photographs of Child Nudists

Tania Cleaves (née Woloshyn)

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Outdating: The Time of “Culture” in Colonial Egypt

On Barak

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Pearce v. OMA: Architectural Authorship on the Courtroom Table

Ana Miljački

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Pocket Wireless and the Shape of Media to Come, 1899–1922

Grant Wythoff

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Quantum Computing and the Analog/Digital Distinction

Jens Schröter, Christoph Ernst, Martin Warnke

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Recording on Film, Transmitting by Signals: The Intermediate Film System and Television’s Hybridity in the Interwar Period

Anne-Katrin Weber

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Religious Horizons in New York’s 1920s

Courtney Bender

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Roman Death Masks and the Metaphorics of the Negative

Patrick R. Crowley

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Scrutinizing: Film and the Microanalysis of Behavior

Seth Barry Watter

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Selections from Elements of a Philosophy of Technology

Ernst Kapp

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Self-Suggestion in the Tuskegee Machine: Technical Drawing under Jim Crow

Maura Lucking

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Seurat’s Media, or a Matrix of Materialities

Carol Armstrong

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Shadows of Expectation: Robert Hooke’s Picture Box and the Visual Economy of Projection

Pasi Väliaho

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Signs and Sight: Jacques Bertin and the Visual Language of Structuralism

Alexander Campolo

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Snowdrops Bloom in September

Harun Farocki

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Socialist Multimedia Warfare: Cine-Exhibition of Class Struggle in 1960s China

Belinda Qian He

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Sol Worth, Film Theory, and the Politics of the Bio-Documentary

Henning Engelke

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Something One Recognizes Yet Can’t See: Andy Warhol in and as Media

Branden W. Joseph

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Space within Space: Artificial Reverb and the Detachable Echo

Jonathan Sterne

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Spacing and Sounding Out

Peter Szendy

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Stacks, Shelves, and the Law: Restructuring the Library of Congress

Zeynep Çelik Alexander

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Strangeloves: From/De la région centrale, Air Defense Radar Station Moisie, and Media Cultures of the Cold War

Kenneth White

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Taylorism Transfigured: Industrial Rhythm and the British Factory

Whitney Laemmli

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Technical Existence

Max Bense

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Ten Short Notes on Color, Anthropology, and Makeup

Michael Rossi

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The Chorein of the Pirate: On the Origin of the Dutch Seascape

Bernhard Siegert

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The Architectural Postcard: Photography, Cinema, and Modernist Mass Media

Thomas Elsaesser

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The Coupling of Cinematics and Kinematics

Kyle Stine

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The Cunning of Sir Sloshua: Reynolds, the Sea, and Risk

Matthew C. Hunter

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The Dialectic of the University: His Master’s Voice

Reinhold Martin

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The Family as Machine: Film, Infrastructure, and Cybernetic Kinship in Suburban America

Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan

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The Hot Noise of Open-Air Cinema

Jie Li

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The Media Arcane

Timon Beyes, Claus Pias

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The Ontology of the Pornographic Image: The Meese Commission and the Rise of Sexual Media

Steven Niedbala

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The Origin of Geometry

Alexander R. Galloway

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The Phantasmagoric Dispositif: An Assembly of Bodies and Images in Real Time and Space

Noam M. Elcott

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The Science of Fun and the War on Poverty

William Lockett

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The Secret History of Science and Modernity: The History of Science and the History of Religion

Lorraine Daston

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The Shot Is Fired Unheard: Sigmund Exner and the Physiology of Reverberation

Viktoria Tkaczyk

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The Smartness Mandate: Notes toward a Critique

Orit Halpern, Robert Mitchell, Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan

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The Values of Insurance

François Ewald

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The Veins of Pennsylvania: Benjamin Franklin’s Nature-Print Currency

Jennifer L. Roberts

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The Word Processing of Watergate and the Metaphysics of Information

Chelsea Spencer

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Theses on the New Öffentlichkeit

Rosalind C. Morris

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Thinking through Noise, Building toward Silence: Creating a Sound Mind and Sound Architecture in the Premodern City

Niall Atkinson

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Trompe L’oeil and Financial Risk in the Age of Paper

Maggie Cao

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Unfolded, Not Opened: On Bernhard Siegert’s Cultural Techniques

Reinhold Martin

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Unpublished Preface to Discourse Networks

Friedrich A. Kittler

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Vacuum Cleaner or Submachine Gun: A Traveling Cinema for Engineers

Harun Farocki

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Vampire Squid Media

Melody Jue

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Vegetal Gestures: Cinema and the Knowledge of Life in Weimar Germany

Matthew Vollgraff

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Virtual Space, Bodily Matter: Bruce Nauman’s Holograms

Taylor Walsh

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Walter Benjamin’s Media Theory: The Medium and the Apparat

Antonio Somaini

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Watery Milieus: Marine Biology, Aquariums, and the Limits of Ecological Knowledge circa 1900

Christina Wessely

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When We Were on the Shenandoah

Jacques Rancière

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With and Against Cinema

Editors of Internationnale situationiste 1

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