Cultural Techniques: Assembling Spaces, Texts & Collectives
Jörg Dünne, "Cultural Techniques: Assembling Spaces, Texts & Collectives"
English | ISBN: 3110644568 | 2020 | 351 pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 3110644568 | 2020 | 351 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This volume presents the preliminary results of the work carried out by the interdisciplinary cultural techniques research lab at the University of Erfurt. Taking up an impulse from media studies, its contributions examine ―from a variety of disciplinary perspectives―the interplay between the formative processes of knowledge and action outlined within the conceptual framework of cultural techniques. Case studies in the fields of history, literary (and media) studies, and the history of science reconstruct seemingly fundamental demarcations such as nature and culture, the human and the nonhuman, and materiality and the symbolical order as the result of concrete practices and operations. These studies reveal that particularly basic operations of spatialization form the very conditions that determine emergence within any cultural order.
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