Scripted Culture
Digitalization and the Cultural Public Sphere
1st Edition
Published on 11. April 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-3-0358-0085-2 (ISBN)
Description
When we look at the cultural public sphere through the lens of digitalization, a paradoxical picture emerges: the cultural public sphere is simultaneously exploding and imploding; the most essential objectives of the Enlightenment have been attained and yet are in danger; platforms and algorithms are vehicles both for self-determination and for heteronomy. Long-standing values from the Enlightenment values and new realities, the citizen and the consumer, rational systems of humans and machines alike are both separate in inextricable from one another in this picture.
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Editor
Ruedi Widmer ist verantwortlich für die Fachrichtung Kulturpublizistik und die Master-Studienrichtung »publizieren & vermitteln« der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. Er studierte Filmwissenschaft und Philosophie an der Universität Paris VIII und an der Universität Zürich und war freier Journalist und Publizist in den Bereichen Film, Medien, Design, Kunst und Kultur (u.a. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Hochparterre, Weltwoche, MAGAZIN, Jahrbuch CINEMA). Zuletzt publizierte er Zeitungs- und Buchbeiträge zur Kulturberichterstattung im Medienwandel, zu amerikanischen Dramenserien und zur gestalterischen Dimension journalistischer Medien in der Schweiz.
Ines Kleesattel Ines Kleesattel is a scholar of critical aesthetic studies with a
background in philosophy, cultural studies, art education, and
artistic research. Her work addresses relational practices of critique, situated aesthetics, queer-feminist ways of doing theory,
and methods of artistic research. Since 2023 she is a professor at
Basel Academy of Art and Design. Before, she was a guest professor at Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, a senior Researcher at University of Applied Arts Vienna as well as at Zurich University of the
Arts. Kleesattel holds a PhD in Aesthetics/Philosophy. As a post-doc, she contributed to the SNSF project Aesthetics of Translocality. Recently, she has published on the topics of queer-feminist
witchery as critical fabulation and on landscaping as a relational
practice.
Content
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Scripted Culture. Nothing Is New, or Who Is We?
(Ines Kleesattel, Ruedi Widmer)
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The Cultural Public Sphere and the Sphere of Rational Discourse
(Eva Mackensen)
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Media and the Digital Public Sphere
(Ruedi Widmer)
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Smart Curation and the Role of Algorithms in Cultural Reception
(Frédéric Martel)
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Human-Machine Relationships
(Dieter Mersch)
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Agency
(Felix Stalder)
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Economification and Culturalization: Dynamics and Governance Models
(Simon Grand, Christoph Weckerle)
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The Archive: Knowledge Producers, Powerful Machines, Testimony Functions
(Ines Kleesattel)
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Subversion: Pop from the Culture Industry to the Data Industry
(Donat Kaufmann, Daniela Weinmann)
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Blockchain and Digital Contract Management
(David Simon, Ruedi Widmer)
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Civilization and the Global Public Sphere
(Jörg Scheller)
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FOUND FOOTAGE I
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The App-Museum and the Reinvention of the Aura
(Corinne Gisel, Lora Sommer)
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The Disruption of Criticism
(Frédéric Martel)
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Evaluating Moving Images in Fast-Moving Times
(Ruedi Widmer)
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The Taste Machine
(Remo Bitzi, Mathis Neuhaus)
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FOUND FOOTAGE II
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BONUS FEATURES
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