Thinking Media and Beyond

Briankle G. Chang teaches Cultural Studies and Media Theory and Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, USA. He is the author of Deconstructing Communication: Subject, Representation, and Economies of Exchange (1996) and co-editor of Philosophy of Communication (2012). Florian Sprenger is Professor for Media and Cultural Studies at Goethe University, Germany. He is author of Politics of Microdecisions: Edward Snowden, Net Neutrality and the Architecture of the Internet (2015). His research covers topics such as the history of artificial environments and the media of immediacy.

• 1. Of digits and things: opening remarks 2. The agents of time and the time of the agents: the action of timepieces in Christian Marclay’s The Clock 3. Affective mediality and its aesthetic transformation in Christian Marclay’s The Clock 4. ‘Can thought go on without a body?’ On the relationship between machines and organisms in media philosophy 5. The metaphysics of media: Descartes’ sticks, naked communication, and immediacy 6. Meta/dia two different approaches to the medial 7. Historical, technological and medial a priori: on the belatedness of media 8. Synthesis as mediation: inner touch and eccentric sensation