Medien Denken

Medien Denken

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Vortragsreihe des Instituts für Medienwissenschaft der Ruhr-Universität Bochum
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Abstract Spatially and temporal marginal characters in a narrative may not be marginal in terms of meaning and affect. While a marginal character may be incidental, providing an interlude or local colour, he or she may also either, in their marginality deliberately and unintendedly indicate the social parameters of the world of the narrative, or may even constitute a concern that is both central and inadmissible to it. These dynamics of marginality will be discussed through the role of black and gay characters in La dolce vita (Italy 1960 Federico Fellini). Biographical Note Richard Dyer has an MA from the University of St Andrews and a PhD in Cultural Studies from the University of Birmingham. He was Professor of Film Studies at the University of Warwick and King’s College London and Professorial Fellow at St Andrews. He has lectured very widely in Europe, North America and Australia, been honoured by the Universities of Turku, Dublin and Yale, the Society for Cinema and Media Stu...

Das Institut für Medienwissenschaft lädt alle Interessierten herzlich zur Vortragsreihe »Medien|Denken« ein. »Medien|Denken« versammelt als Kolloquium des Instituts für Medienwissenschaft an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum Vorträge zu aktuellen medienwissenschaftlichen Forschungsfragen.

Abstract: In the new data driven, algorithmic cultures of ICT for Development, the subject appears in the dialectics of connected and not-yet connected. Following the earlier tropes of visible and invisible, speaking and silent subjects, this focus on the subject follows an expected script where the promise of the digital is to make the unconnected subject connected. Disguised in the language of universal access, ubiquitous computing, and participatory engagement, the processes of connectivity presume only the binary positions of the subject who has to be connected. In this discourse, what is often undertheorised, or not even recognised is the idea of the disconnected subject – the subject who has been put into conditions of connectivity, and then is either disconnected through acts of censorship and control, or chooses to disconnect for personal reasons. The power of political disconnectedness, and the poetics of resistance that this reticence produces to our big data driven futur...

In the recent futuristic film Her, the protagonist Theodore falls in love with his intelligent OS Samantha. Their romance ends when Samantha decides to leave Theodore in order to join other operating systems in new and ever faster evolving ways of learning and communicating post-verbally. It is quite remarkable that in spite of its concern with the new media of the imminent future, Her also features such seemingly obsolete media as the handwritten letter and the printed book. This lecture will explore how these old media are invoked in order to reflect on the medial conditions of sentimental and romantic love today.

Der 'Avant-garde' wohnt der Konflikt inne. Seit der Einsetzung des Begriffs mit der Kriegstheorie des Spätmittelalters und genauso in seiner ästhetischen Wendung markiert er die nicht selten radikale Opposition politischer wie künstlerischer Terme. So erscheint Paul Strands und Charles Sheelers experimenteller Kurzfilm MANHATTA (1921) nicht nur als Entfaltung innovativer Strategien filmischer Repräsentation, sondern ein um das andere Mal selbst als Bild- und Sinnkonstellation, in der – zwischen Erzählung und Fragment, Stand- und Bewegtbild, Nostalgie und Fortschritt – formale, mediale, ideologische Gegensätze insistieren. Diesem grobmechanischen Modell reagierender Kräfte will der Vortrag begegnen, indem er in MANHATTAs Ein-Bildungen von Stadt und Mensch die Figuren kleinstmöglicher Abweichung aufsucht: Anstelle der großen Utopie sollen die geringen „atopischen“ Verschiebungen in den Arrangements des Films Aufschluss geben über die Konsistenzen des Bildes (von einer Wa...

Friedrich Mittlers „Grammophon. Film. Typewriter“ beginnt mit einer lakonisch-verdichteten Formel, welche das Programm einer im Veröffentlichungsjahr 1986 gerade zu sich kommenden Medienwissenschaft auf den Punkt bringt. Mittlers Satz lautet: “Medien bestimmen unsere Lage.” Der Vortrag wird den Hintergrund der von Kittel postulierten Bestimmtheit der Lage durch die Medien im literarisch-philosophischen Kontext der 1930er und 40er Jahre nachzeichnen. So wurde im Umkreis von Phänomenologie, philosophischer Anthropologie und Kulturanthropologie (Heidegger, Jaspers, Rothacker) die Diskussion der Differenz von Situation und Lage zu einem zentralen Ort, die existentielle Verhasstheit des Menschen als ein welterschließendes Wesen zu denken. Die paradigmatische Verdichtung zur zitterbaren Formel “Erkenne die Lage” geschieht dann im Werk Gottfried Benns, für den sich die militärische Lagebestimmung zum medientechnologisch vermittelten Existential des modernen Menschen verwandelt.

Serial killing is an extremely rare phenomenon that is nonetheless not only extremely widespread in cultural production but also widely taken to be symptomatic of, inter alia, human nature, masculinity and modernity. What assumptions – and fears – is the representation of this excessively marginal reality carrying about such broad cultural categories? Serial killing is also often presumed to be a characteristically American phenomenon, although it is – in its actual rarity and its cultural dominance – fully present in European culture, including film. It is also assumed to be a specifically white and male thing, again at variance with reality. What is it about ideas of both whiteness and masculinity that fit at once so comfortably and uncomfortably with ideas of serial killing? This presentation will consider these issues, with reference to such films as ANGST (Austria 1983), ANTI- KÖRPER (Germany 2005), LA CASA DALLE FINESTRE CHE RIDONO (THE HOUSE WITH THE LAUGHING WINDOWS, It...

Regisseure der Tauwetter-Ära schufen in den 1960er Jahren einen Repräsentationskanon, der die Filme jener Zeit auf charakteristische Weise auszeichnete und von Andrej Tarkowski erfolgreich ins Ausland exportiert wurde. Dieser Kanon wurde in den 1980er Jahren korrigiert, und mit dem Untergang der Sowjetunion in den 1990ern zerbrach er. Die Kombination visueller und akustischer Zeichen in den Filmen aus jüngster Zeit (Andrej Swjaginzews Elena; Anna Melikjans Star, 2014; Roman Prygunows Духless, 2014 u.a.) stellt Körper, Verhaltensweisen und den Raum im Film völlig neu dar. Diese Umgestaltung (und Umwertung) hängt zusammen mit der Herausbildung einer neuen symbolischen Gemeinschaft auf der Basis einer neuen medialen Erfahrung, mit der sich dieser Vortrag auseinandersetzt. Diese Veränderungen werden am Beispiel zweier Kriterien analysiert: die Schnittfrequenz (Geschwindigkeit), die von einem neuen Umgang mit der Zeit zeugt, und die Oberflächenbeschaffenheit („faktura“). Bei...

Since 2000s onward, the popularity of “Asian”-looking and “Asian flavor” cultural products has been significantly increasing in Indonesian screen culture [especially film, TV, advertising, social media and mobile devices]. The phenomenal interest among young people in Indonesia—and other part of East/Southeast Asia—in Korean TV drama, Japanese music video, and other “Asian flavor” cultural products has indicated the emerging moment of so-called “Asianization of Asia”. Since the latter decade of 20th century, globalization of western popular culture has been accompanied by intra-regional cultural flows within the region of Asia. Within the phenomenon of “Asianization of Asia”, the West is ceased to be the only point of reference for production/consumption of popular culture not merely in Indonesia but also in other parts of Asia. This phenomenon is also termed as ‘trans-Asia’, or ‘intra-/inter-Asia’. The main feature of “Asianization” is not the essentialist idea of...

Dieser Vortrag beschäftigt sich mit High Definition (HD) – hochaufgelösten, digitalen Kinobildern – einerseits als ästhetisches Phänomen, jedoch auch als mediales Format. Als detaildichtes, konturenscharfes Filmbild zeigt HD seine ästhetische Qualität. Gleichzeitig bleibt HD aber nicht am Bild haften sondern existiert als Meta-Label, welches, von der Produktion bis zur Speicherung, Existenzen des Kinobildes aufzeigt. HD soll als mediales Aggregat verstanden werden, als eine Infrastruktur, die die Zirkulation des digitalen Filmbilds beschließend, einen Prozess von festeren und loseren visuellen Kopplungen beschreibt. Zwischen Bildontologie und Bildoperation unterliegt HD damit einer Logik der Definition und Auflösung. Das Changieren zwischen ästhetischem Nahkontakt mit dem Bild und einer strukturellen Logik der Beziehungsbereitschaft des Bildes soll mit der medien-philosophischen Kategorie des Affekts eingeholt werden. HD affiziert: als visuell aufgeladenes Bild sowie als ...

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