Provoking, Disturbing, Hacking: Media archaeology as a framework for the understanding of contemporary DIY composers’ instruments and ideas

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 266-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanne Krogh Groth
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Computer Music ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
The Other ◽  
Media Archaeology ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Conventional Technology ◽  
Artistic Work ◽  
The One

The article is a discussion of works by two Danish composers who both, with self-constructed instruments, challenge computer music as genre, the understanding and use of conventional technology, and the music's relation to history. At first glance, the use of homemade instruments appears to be a common characteristic. But, when one takes a closer look, different discourses and various discussions of media and materiality are revealed. In the article the various positions are unfolded through discussions within the theoretical field of media archaeology – a science with its roots in media studies, but also an important framework for the production and understanding of a variety of DIY practices.The overall purpose with the article is twofold: on the one hand it illustrates how theories from the field of media archaeology contribute interesting perspectives to discussions of artistic work within the area of DIY. On the other hand, it also serves as a critical discussion of media archaeology as not necessarily the solution to every aspect of artistic practices. The two artists are Morten Riis and Goodiepal.

Weder Höhepunkt der Geschichte noch Schrei ins Leere. Grundriß der deutsch-jüdischen Symbiose

2005 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-149
Author(s):  
Manfred Voigts
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discussion ◽  
The Other ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
History Of ◽  
National Unification ◽  
German Jewish ◽  
The One

AbstractThis essay attempts to explain the German-Jewish symbiosis by examining the history of the German 'Bildungsbürgertum' and the peculiarity of the German Geistesgeschichte', which was shaped by the delay in national unification. On the one hand, the lack of political competence in German intellectual life conformed to Jewish peculiarities; on the other hand, it failed to engage in a critical discussion and rejection of anti-Judaic tendencies.

scholarly journals Critical media practices

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-267
Author(s):  
Sigrid Kannengießer ◽  
Johanna E. Möller
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
The One ◽  
Media Practices

This article develops the theoretical concept of critical media practices. Critical media practices are characterised by two aspects: 1) In critical media practices actors reflect on routines relating to media (as organisations, content, or technologies) and/or on the meta processes mediatisation, digitisation or datafication. 2) On the basis of this reflection actors develop alternative routines in their media practices and shape processes of mediatisation, digitisation or datafication. Critical media practices aim at influencing society and are therefore always political. Conceptualizing the term critical media practices, this article on the one hand contributes to further developing media practices as an approach in communication and media studies, on the other hand, it adds to general debates on critique in this field.

Belief Self-Knowledge

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorit Bar-On ◽  
Kate Nolfi
Keyword(s):  
Mental States ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
The Other ◽  
States Of Mind ◽  
Plausible Account ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
The One ◽  
Alternative Reading ◽  
Genuine Knowledge

A fundamental puzzle about self-knowledge is this: spontaneous, unreflective self-attributions of beliefs and other mental states (avowals) appear to be at once epistemically groundless and epistemically privileged. On the one hand, it seems that avowals simply do not require justification or evidence. On the other hand, avowals seem to represent a substantive epistemic achievement. Several authors have tried to explain away avowals’ groundlessness by appeal to the so-called transparency of present-tense self-attributions. After a critical discussion of two extant construals of transparency, this article presents an alternative reading of transparency (based on neo-expressivism about avowals) that explains, without explaining away, the apparent groundlessness of avowals. The article goes on to explore a way of coupling this alternative reading with a plausible account of how it is that ordinary avowals can represent genuine knowledge of present states of mind.

scholarly journals Observance, Notes towards Decipherability

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-96
Author(s):  
Marquard Smith
Keyword(s):  
Memory Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
Trauma Studies ◽  
Media Archaeology ◽  
Dark Tourism ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Digital Memory ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

Provoked by the terrorist-related murders in England that marked the spring and summer of 2017, I have felt compelled to write this article on the idea of observance (observe, care, follow, obey). I engage with this idea in the context of our contemporary Memory Industry – that confluence of memorialization, remembrance and commemoration culture; Memory Studies and Trauma Studies; tangible and intangible heritage; digital memory and media archaeology; and its series of facing-backwards-to-go-forwards impulses (the archival impulse, the genealogical impulse and the archaeological impulse). Through the Contemporary’s prism, I deploy observance as a rejoinder to the seeming irreconcilability between, on the one hand, the incomprehensibility of the Shoah and, on the other hand, the prevalence of its rendering in figurative and abstract memorials, literature, art and film; and by way of dark tourism, Shoah selfies and genealogy websites. I propose that, because of its assorted senses, as a grievable moment observance may be a way of negotiating (without necessarily wanting or needing to reconcile) such irreconcilability. I argue that this is possible because of how observance (observing a minute’s silence, for instance) as a (secular, vernacular) performative action somehow opens up a space of the imagination that might lead, for good and ill, to a decipherability all the more necessary in our interminable state of exception that is the Contemporary.

scholarly journals Russia’s Quest for the “Historical Jesus”: Tolstoy and Dostoevsky vs. Strauss

Slovene ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 261-291
Author(s):  
Protoiereus Georgy Orekhanov ◽  
Iereus Alexey Andreev
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Leo Tolstoy ◽  
Historical Jesus ◽  
Life Crisis ◽  
Fyodor Dostoevsky ◽  
Negative View ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Artistic Work ◽  
The One ◽  
Religious Crisis

The works of theologian David Friedrich Strauss are significant milestones in the development of an academic project known as the “Quest for the Historical Jesus”. As part of the Quest, various researchers tried to reconstruct the life, teachings, and personality of Jesus of Nazareth using historical and philological methods, that is, operating from the standpoint of strict positivism. The purpose of this article is to show that the works of Strauss had a significant impact on the logic and evolution of the religious quests of Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Tolstoy became acquainted with Strauss's ideas around the late 1870s, in a period of intensive intellectual search, which eventually led him to an acute religious crisis and rejection of the official church view on Christianity. The article shows that the writer was ultimately compelled to reject the ideas of Strauss and Renan. At the same time, some elements of Strauss's theory were so close to Tolstoy that these ideas had a definite influence on his basic religious conception. Dostoevsky had the opportunity to become acquainted with the ideas of Strauss in the Petrashevsky Circle. This experience led to a deep life crisis on Dostoevsky's part, too. On the one hand, the writer had a negative view of ideas associated with the works of Strauss and Renan. On the other hand, all of Dostoevsky’s artistic work is directly related to his overcoming the influence of the “Strauss-Renan narrative”, which itself is evidence of the evolution of the writer’s views on faith and religion.

scholarly journals The Media (Studies) of the Pandemic Moment: Introduction to the 20th Anniversary Issue

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 555-561
Author(s):  
Jonathan Corpus Ong ◽  
Diane Negra
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Anniversary Issue ◽  
The Media ◽  
20Th Anniversary ◽  
The One

Television & New Media commemorates its 20th year anniversary with this diverse collection of short reflection pieces on the “intellectual and institutional turbulence” facing media studies and the ways our colleagues have taken up these challenges in their work. Our introduction to the anniversary issue specifically addresses the role of media and media studies in the COVID-19 pandemic moment. On the one hand, our discipline has the opportunity to reinforce and reflect on its long-held arguments as we see how the pandemic reveals key insights of the field with uncanny clarity. On the other hand, for some, there is the nagging sensation we will have to do more and better if we are to adequately account for all the features of the current crisis.

scholarly journals Crowdsourcing: A Critical Discussion on Some Issues of a Challenging New Practice in the Digitization of Photographic Heritage

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Baetens
Keyword(s):  
Belief Systems ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
The Other ◽  
Photographic Material ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Creative Tension ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The One

This article deals with a certain number of issues raised by the use of crowdsourcing in the management of photographic archives. Although crowdsourcing is (and should remain) a vital instrument in the description and analysis of photographic material, it does not really take into account certain problems such as the difference between information and knowledge, the reduction of knowledge to merely cognitive elements (at the expense of social, political, and ideological belief systems) and the creative tension between the unique artefact on the one hand and serialization on the other hand. Relying on the work by Yves Citton and his plea for the role of interpretation in humanist research, this article will offer a new way of "framing" the technique of crowdsourcing in a larger interpretive context.

Medienanthropologie

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Rieger
Keyword(s):  
Data Processing ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
A Priori ◽  
The Other ◽  
Technical Data ◽  
Fields Of Study ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Friedrich Kittler ◽  
The One

"Der Text gilt den Aporien der Medienanthropologie. Neben den Debatten um das mediale Apriori, wie sie vor allen die Arbeiten Friedrich Kittlers ausgelöst haben, geraten dabei zwei Dinge in den Blick. Zum einen die Möglichkeit, die Rede von der technischen Datenverarbeitung nicht nur metaphorisch, sondern der Sache nach auf die Verarbeitungsprozesse des Menschen zu übertragen und so quantifizierbare Kriterien für dessen Leistungsfähigkeit abzuleiten. Zum anderen wird in der Abwendung von einer spezifisch deutschen Medienwissenschaft gerade in der aktuellen internationalen Diskussion ein Medienbegriff etabliert, der in seiner pluralen Ausrichtung Bezugnahmen etwa auch zur Biologie erlaubt (BioMedia). </br></br>The paper is devoted to the aporias of medial anthropology. In addition to the debates about the medial a priori, as initiated primarily by the works of Friedrich Kittler, two things come into view: On the one hand, the possibility to apply the notion of technical data processing to human processes not only in a metaphorical, but also in a literal way, in order to derive quantifiable criteria for their performance; on the other hand, the turn away from specifically German media studies in the ongoing international discussion establishes a notion of media that, thanks to its pluralistic orientation, allows references to other fields of study, e.g. to biology (biomedia). "

Stories and the Self

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Krause ◽  
Markus Appel
Keyword(s):  
Meta Analysis ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Lower Degree ◽  
Contrast Effects ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Implicit And Explicit

Abstract. Two experiments examined the influence of stories on recipients’ self-perceptions. Extending prior theory and research, our focus was on assimilation effects (i.e., changes in self-perception in line with a protagonist’s traits) as well as on contrast effects (i.e., changes in self-perception in contrast to a protagonist’s traits). In Experiment 1 ( N = 113), implicit and explicit conscientiousness were assessed after participants read a story about either a diligent or a negligent student. Moderation analyses showed that highly transported participants and participants with lower counterarguing scores assimilate the depicted traits of a story protagonist, as indicated by explicit, self-reported conscientiousness ratings. Participants, who were more critical toward a story (i.e., higher counterarguing) and with a lower degree of transportation, showed contrast effects. In Experiment 2 ( N = 103), we manipulated transportation and counterarguing, but we could not identify an effect on participants’ self-ascribed level of conscientiousness. A mini meta-analysis across both experiments revealed significant positive overall associations between transportation and counterarguing on the one hand and story-consistent self-reported conscientiousness on the other hand.

Radioimmunotherapy for treatment of acute myeloid leukaemia and myelodysplastic syndrome

2005 ◽  
Vol 44 (03) ◽  
pp. 107-117
Author(s):  
R. G. Meyer ◽  
W. Herr ◽  
A. Helisch ◽  
P. Bartenstein ◽  
I. Buchmann
Keyword(s):  
Acute Myeloid Leukaemia ◽  
Myeloid Leukaemia ◽  
Primary Tumour ◽  
The Other ◽  
Haematopoietic Stem Cell ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Primary Reduction ◽  
The One ◽  
Acute Myeloid

SummaryThe prognosis of patients with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) has improved considerably by introduction of aggressive consolidation chemotherapy and haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (SCT). Nevertheless, only 20-30% of patients with AML achieve long-term diseasefree survival after SCT. The most common cause of treatment failure is relapse. Additionally, mortality rates are significantly increased by therapy-related causes such as toxicity of chemotherapy and complications of SCT. Including radioimmunotherapies in the treatment of AML and myelodyplastic syndrome (MDS) allows for the achievement of a pronounced antileukaemic effect for the reduction of relapse rates on the one hand. On the other hand, no increase of acute toxicity and later complications should be induced. These effects are important for the primary reduction of tumour cells as well as for the myeloablative conditioning before SCT.This paper provides a systematic and critical review of the currently used radionuclides and immunoconjugates for the treatment of AML and MDS and summarizes the literature on primary tumour cell reductive radioimmunotherapies on the one hand and conditioning radioimmunotherapies before SCT on the other hand.

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