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Eigenvalue On the Gradual Contraction of Media in Movement; Contemplating Media in Art [Sound Image Sense]

Berressem Hanjo
Innbundet / 2018 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781501335181
Publisert
2018-09-06
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic USA
Vekt
422 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
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Innbundet
Antall sider
232

Forfatter
Berressem Hanjo

Biographical note

Hanjo Berressem is Professor of American Literature at the University of Cologne, Germany. His publications include Pynchon’s Poetics: Interfacing Theory and Text and Lines of Desire: Reading Gombrowicz’s Fiction with Lacan.

Eigenvalue On the Gradual Contraction of Media in Movement; Contemplating Media in Art [Sound Image Sense]

Berressem Hanjo
Innbundet / 2018 / Engelsk
Berressem Hanjo
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What comes to replace and improve upon the idea of identity for a world of emergence, flux and multiplicity? What is the reference point for self-regulating processes in our complex systems? The answer is eigenvalues. In this exemplary work of study between disciplines, where science and art meet and cross-pollinate, Hanjo Berressem has given us the most thorough and inspirational explanation of one of the hidden keys to modern life.

James Williams, Honorary Professor of Philosophy, Deakin University, Australia

Hanjo Berressem's Eigenvalue is a bold new approach to the theory of the technological and the political unconscious, one that is not centered on the individual. Eigenvalue is structured as two explorations in book form - one on science, and one on literature. Ranging across quantum physics, cybernetics, and chaos theory in the first book, to Alvin Lucier on the acoustic unconscious, Bill Morrison on the visual unconscious, and Thomas Pynchon on narrative literature in the second, Professor Berressem both illustrates the resonance across science and poetics and develops extremely important new theoretical contributions to studies of the unconscious.

David Holdsworth, Associate Professor, Trent School for the Environment, Canada

Eigenvalue provides the first history of 'eigenvalue' by building an important bridge between the hard and the soft sciences. Originally a mathematical term, Hanjo Berressem applies Eigenvalue, which roughly translates to proper value, to the media studies discipline for the first time, providing a philological history and line of development across the sciences through to contemporary cultural studies. Berressem's groundbreaking work is organized into 2 books, with the first book broken down into six topical areas - mathematics, physics, cybernetics, biology, literary studies, cultural studies. The second book discusses the place of eigenvalues in sound, light and literature, specifically, Alvin Lucier’s experimental composition “I am Sitting in a Room,” Bill Morrison’s eight-minute experimental film Light is Calling and the literary works of Thomas Pynchon. Berressem's thought-provoking philology is an important reference point for readers seeking an authoritative introduction to a term that connects other key ideas in contemporary debate.
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Introduction 1. Mathematics 2. Physics 3. Cybernetics 4. Biology 5. Literary Studies 6. Cultural Studies Conclusion Overture 7. Eigenfrequencies - Alvin Lucier’s Composition “I am Sitting in a Room" 8. Eigenlight - Bill Morrison’s Film Light is Calling 9. Eigenmelody - Thomas Pynchon's Literary Works Finale Bibliography Index
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Provides the first history and conceptualization of the term ‘eigenvalue’ (a marker of a form in a medium) and its function in 20th century science, theory and art.
Provides the first historical mapping of the term’s migrations between many fields, as well as the first comprehensive investigation of its conceptual depth
Media not only determine our situation, as Friedrich Kittler has it; rather, our situation, our life, our thoughts only enfold and execute themselves within the medial field in the first place. Film-Philosophy has already shown that 'film thinks'. If we take this a step further, relating this approach to the whole range of media production, but also take a step back, and see what this approach basically means, we begin to see the seeds of a new Media Philosophy worthy of the name - not talking about media by way of 'philosophy proper', safeguarding disciplinary boundaries, but by realizing the philosophical qualities and impacts of each medium: it all starts from the assumption that our memory, perception, and thinking is not just a given, as an internal process that takes place behind the wall of our skull and is purely mental - there is always a 'material basis' of mediation. The thinking media series publishes original, innovative, and transdisciplinary monographs and edited collections that advance debates in the nexus of media studies, philosophy, and the 'new sciences' (such as cognitive neurosciences and complexity theory).
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What comes to replace and improve upon the idea of identity for a world of emergence, flux and multiplicity? What is the reference point for self-regulating processes in our complex systems? The answer is eigenvalues. In this exemplary work of study between disciplines, where science and art meet and cross-pollinate, Hanjo Berressem has given us the most thorough and inspirational explanation of one of the hidden keys to modern life.

James Williams, Honorary Professor of Philosophy, Deakin University, Australia

Hanjo Berressem's Eigenvalue is a bold new approach to the theory of the technological and the political unconscious, one that is not centered on the individual. Eigenvalue is structured as two explorations in book form - one on science, and one on literature. Ranging across quantum physics, cybernetics, and chaos theory in the first book, to Alvin Lucier on the acoustic unconscious, Bill Morrison on the visual unconscious, and Thomas Pynchon on narrative literature in the second, Professor Berressem both illustrates the resonance across science and poetics and develops extremely important new theoretical contributions to studies of the unconscious.

David Holdsworth, Associate Professor, Trent School for the Environment, Canada

Eigenvalue provides the first history of 'eigenvalue' by building an important bridge between the hard and the soft sciences. Originally a mathematical term, Hanjo Berressem applies Eigenvalue, which roughly translates to proper value, to the media studies discipline for the first time, providing a philological history and line of development across the sciences through to contemporary cultural studies. Berressem's groundbreaking work is organized into 2 books, with the first book broken down into six topical areas - mathematics, physics, cybernetics, biology, literary studies, cultural studies. The second book discusses the place of eigenvalues in sound, light and literature, specifically, Alvin Lucier’s experimental composition “I am Sitting in a Room,” Bill Morrison’s eight-minute experimental film Light is Calling and the literary works of Thomas Pynchon. Berressem's thought-provoking philology is an important reference point for readers seeking an authoritative introduction to a term that connects other key ideas in contemporary debate.
Les mer
Introduction 1. Mathematics 2. Physics 3. Cybernetics 4. Biology 5. Literary Studies 6. Cultural Studies Conclusion Overture 7. Eigenfrequencies - Alvin Lucier’s Composition “I am Sitting in a Room" 8. Eigenlight - Bill Morrison’s Film Light is Calling 9. Eigenmelody - Thomas Pynchon's Literary Works Finale Bibliography Index
Les mer
Provides the first history and conceptualization of the term ‘eigenvalue’ (a marker of a form in a medium) and its function in 20th century science, theory and art.
Provides the first historical mapping of the term’s migrations between many fields, as well as the first comprehensive investigation of its conceptual depth
Media not only determine our situation, as Friedrich Kittler has it; rather, our situation, our life, our thoughts only enfold and execute themselves within the medial field in the first place. Film-Philosophy has already shown that 'film thinks'. If we take this a step further, relating this approach to the whole range of media production, but also take a step back, and see what this approach basically means, we begin to see the seeds of a new Media Philosophy worthy of the name - not talking about media by way of 'philosophy proper', safeguarding disciplinary boundaries, but by realizing the philosophical qualities and impacts of each medium: it all starts from the assumption that our memory, perception, and thinking is not just a given, as an internal process that takes place behind the wall of our skull and is purely mental - there is always a 'material basis' of mediation. The thinking media series publishes original, innovative, and transdisciplinary monographs and edited collections that advance debates in the nexus of media studies, philosophy, and the 'new sciences' (such as cognitive neurosciences and complexity theory).
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781501335181
Publisert
2018-09-06
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic USA
Vekt
422 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
232

Forfatter
Berressem Hanjo

Biographical note

Hanjo Berressem is Professor of American Literature at the University of Cologne, Germany. His publications include Pynchon’s Poetics: Interfacing Theory and Text and Lines of Desire: Reading Gombrowicz’s Fiction with Lacan.

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