Siegfried Zielinski: 2 books

[...After the Media]

News from the Slow-Fading Twentieth Century

by Siegfried Zielinski
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015

The media are now redundant. In an overview of developments spanning the past seventy years, Siegfried Zielinski’s [ . . . After the Media] discusses how the means of technology-based communication assumed a systemic character and how theory, art, and criticism were operative in this process. Media-explicit...

Elements of a Philosophy of Technology

On the Evolutionary History of Culture

by Ernst Kapp, Siegfried Zielinski
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018

The first philosophy of technology, constructing humans as technological and technology as an underpinning of all culture Ernst Kapp was a foundational scholar in the fields of media theory and philosophy of technology. His 1877 Elements of a Philosophy of Technology is a visionary study of...